Caste and Race in India c9.29

c9.29

Stated in a generalized form they mean that there is no correspondence between social gradation and physical differentiation in Bombay. We venture to think that the results from Bengal would have been equally striking if we had data for the various sub-castes of the Brahmins. This contention is rendered plausible by some measurements published by Rai Bahadur Ramaprasad Chanda.¹ The following are the means and their standard deviations :-