Caste in India: The Facts and the System c6.s8.8

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First, geographical distribution. It is by reason of their dispersion that the Jainas of Northern India have formed six castes, which are distinguished by no occupational speciality.² Migration invariably transforms into a special caste the sect which has broken away from its original body. The fact is particularly apparent among the Brahmans, who have preserved unusually precise memories of their origins; but it holds good in every degree of the scale.³