Caste in India: The Facts and the System c7.s5.32

c7.s5.32

Naturally, the system is later than the facts which it professes to codify and revise. When it appears, it is because the caste is already the recognized social order; but for how long has it been so? This is what we are unable to ascertain exactly. Not only did the caste exist, but everything indicates that it existed in a condition fundamentally identical with that of to-day.