Caste in India: The Facts and the System c6.s4.16

c6.s4.16

This diversity of occupations in the Brahmanic caste is nothing new. A very similar state of things is already sanctioned by the laws of Manu and by other equally venerable authorities. I hasten to add that in many cases these distinctions give birth to those new sub-castes which are to me the true castes; but this result is far from being invariable.