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¹ Ibbetson, pp. 111-12; exceptions, as well as being very rare, are generally based on some definite motive. The case of those Santals of Bengal who, at the time of the famine, preferred to die of hunger rather than touch food prepared by Brahmans is a piquant reaction of the scruples fostered by orthodox teaching.