Caste in India: The Facts and the System c7.s3.18

c7.s3.18

If the rules are tempered in numerous ways, that by no means implies that they are in course of formation. In our times also, if we wished to resolve custom into general formulae, we should be thrown back on a multitude of similar reservations. We must learn to fathom the meaning of these uncertainties and contradictions, which are open, according to circumstances, to various explanations.