Caste in India: The Facts and the System c8.s4.6

c8.s4.6

He arrives indirectly at a fairly general acceptance of the orthodox Brahmanic system : ¹ he supposes that the predominance gradually acquired by the priesthood was the principal source of the whole evolution.² Despite its exaggerated simplification, the theory of mixed castes remains for him ³ an invaluable proof of incessant cross-breeding ; he regards the fluctuating intermixture of the populations as the main cause of the multiplication of groups.