Caste in India: The Facts and the System c7.s4.19

c7.s4.19

That sacerdotal functions were by this time strongly organized and protected against over-easy intrusions is warranted by their complicated nature alone. It is universally admitted that the royal power, or more generally the dignity of the nobles, had here, as everywhere else, a marked tendency to become established by a more or less strict heredity. But certainly only a mind strongly biased and determined in advance to find in the past the teachings of the Brahmanic system can discover in this triple classification ‘ castes ’ in the strict meaning of the word and as implied by the more modern doctrine and usage. None of the characteristics which constitute the caste is expressly mentioned.