Caste in India: The Facts and the System c7.s5.35

c7.s5.35

Literature, then, is insufficient for our purpose. It has preserved neither sound historical sequence nor conclusive traces of the past. If I have been obliged to demonstrate this at some length, the attentive student will perhaps find compensation in discovering here an instructive example of the obscurity peculiar to Hindu tradition, the difficulties which it presents to our curiosity, and the caution which its use demands.