Caste in India: The Facts and the System c7.s4.34

c7.s4.34

The question whether castes existed in the Vedic epoch has been much discussed and without a sufficiently close scrutiny of terms. The hymn to Purusha has, by common assent, been considered too recent to be admitted as evidence on this head. The above observations do not solve the problem, but they will at least result in causing partisans or opponents of the existence of castes in Vedic times to make very material modifications in their base of operations.