Caste in India: The Facts and the System c8.s3.18

c8.s3.18

Nesfield has perhaps studied caste too much from its external and present aspect. He has started from everyday experience, a proceeding which has its advantages, but also its dangers. His theory has taken such hold of his mind that he has naturally been led to present it to us as a deductive exposition rather than to demonstrate it step by step. Will he convert many students to a point of view in which a special historical phenomenon is held to be derived from deductions of a purely general character?