Caste in India: The Facts and the System c7.s3.41

c7.s3.41

I know that there is a tendency to accommodate matters and to claim that the present disintegration is the result of the slow disorganization of a strict primitive unity. This is glaringly impossible. It is, however, a point to which I must return when enumerating the various theories which have been advanced in the endeavour to account for origins. For the present I shall confine myself to the scraps of information furnished by literary tradition; we must probe deeply those indications which its oldest monuments offer for our researches.