Caste and Race in India c6.46

c6.46

*Note.*—The above facts are mostly taken from the Central Provinces and Bombay Presidency, both of which regions are outside the centre of old Brahmanic culture. It would have been very instructive to know how matters stand in the Tamil region which is the farthest removed from the home of the original culture and which must have received its Sanskritic culture at the hands of small batches of immigrants. But unfortunately the ethnographic literature on Dravidian India does not enable us to have a glimpse of this aspect of caste. In the home of the Brahmanic culture, the United Provinces, the same principles can be discerned from the nomenclature of the castes and sub-castes. One additional and important feature of the caste origination of that province is that the names of Rajput clans and those of some of the eponymous personages figure very largely in the names of the sub-castes of many major groups. (See W. Crooke, *The Tribes and Castes of the North-Western Provinces and Oudh*, vol. i, pp. cixiv-v.)