Caste in India: The Facts and the System c8.s3.25

c8.s3.25

This system may appear more logical than that of Nesfield, but it proceeds perhaps in an even higher degree from a wholly gratuitous conjecture unsupported by a shadow of proof. And what are we to say of this conception of the most essential and characteristic rules of the caste? It regards them, with all their strictness and the absolute sway which they exercise over conscience, as nothing more than an artificial invention of late growth, calculated to further party interests!