Caste in India: The Facts and the System c6.s8.29

c6.s8.29

These changes follow, as one can observe, two contrary tendencies. Certain castes or sections are formed by groups raising themselves in the social scale; others, more numerous, resign themselves to a degradation imposed by circumstances. In the rules which, according to the Brahmanic system, dominate the life of the caste—rules of purity, domestic laws or religious beliefs—we discover the pivot of these movements.