Caste in India: The Facts and the System c8.s3.26

c8.s3.26

The real weakness of the system is shown by the inordinate importance attributed by Ibbetson—who agrees with Nesfield on this point—to community of occupation. If this really constituted the primitive bond of the caste, the latter would have shown less tendency to split up and disintegrate; the medium which originally united it would have maintained its cohesion.