Caste in India: The Facts and the System c7.s5.30

c7.s5.30

Neither the traces of conflicts between nobles and Brahmans, nor certain exceptional transfers (supposing them authentic) from one group to another, prove that the caste was in a rudimentary state at the period to which the testimony dates back. Class-struggles and conflicting influences belong to all epochs, and are grafted on the most diverse of social constitutions. These incidents in no way exclude, any more than they inherently imply, the contemporaneous existence of the caste.