Caste in India: The Facts and the System c6.s5.23

c6.s5.23

Even Brahman servants are hampered by rules. When they have bathed and put on woollen, flax, or silk clothes they are pure and can touch anything. They become impure if they touch anything impure, such as bedding or such wearing apparel as a coat or a turban. If they touch a shoe or a piece of leather, they have to bathe. A schoolboy after his bath has to get a servant or a younger brother or sister to turn the pages of his leather-covered school book.’ ¹