Caste in India: The Facts and the System c7.s2.54

c7.s2.54

This tradition seems to alternate strangely between correspondence with existing facts and divergence from them. Everything is easily understood, and contradictions are explained as local diversities, impossible symmetries as attempts at systematic explanation—provided we admit that the tradition corresponds to an absolutely analogous situation, some which still existed in recent times. This situation is only presented in a false perspective, with generalizations, corrections, and interpretations such as might be inspired either by the turn of mind peculiar to the Hindu or by a supreme preoccupation with Brahmanic interests.