Caste in India: The Facts and the System c6.s8.49

c6.s8.49

It is characteristic of the highflown vanity of the various groups that they set particular store on establishing completely imaginary connexions with castes like the Kshatriya and the Vaiśya of the Brahmanic system, which have no reality, at least in our own times. It cannot therefore be prompted by any genuine tradition; it is out of date, and inspired, like the whole hierarchical scheme, by the sacerdotal theory.