The Political Institutions and Theories of the Hindus: A Study in Comparative Politics c15.s5.29

c15.s5.29

Incidentally, it may be pointed out that the Hindu theory of social orders did not treat the castes as water-tight compartments even in regard to marital relations. Inter-caste marriages were held valid by Kautilya, Manu, Yâjnavalkya and Viṣṇu.⁸ Race-fusion or blood intermixture, both horizontal and vertical, was therefore accepted as a normal phenomenon of actual life in the legal investigations of those sociologists who interested themselves in the problems of inheritance, succession, and partition of property.