Caste and Race in India c8.204

c8.204

Thus by the end of this period we visualize the caste-organization, as revealed in the literature of the period, to be not at all different in any essential point from the one which we described as prevailing in the middle of the nineteenth century. Perhaps it may be contended that there is not the same multiplicity of groups described in this literature. We have opined that the theory of mixed castes, as expanded by the contemporary writers, marks the numerous groups that had come into existence. Now we propose to present some data from the inscriptions and travellers' accounts bearing on the names and the variety of contemporary groups which corroborate our view.