Caste in India: The Facts and the System c7.s5.10

c7.s5.10

I have spoken in passing of those often violent conflicts which arise here, there, and everywhere between neighbouring castes. They blaze up over some special privilege to which a caste cannot bear to see its right contested. They bear no comparison, either by nature or casual importance, with the class-struggles for domination which must have taken place between priests and nobles in the past.