Caste in India: The Facts and the System c8.s6.18

c8.s6.18

Thus the bulk of Āryan immigrants settled in enclosed villages, and dominated more or less by an idea of real or supposed relationship, in any event formed a corporate body in which the clan survived in a modified form. The more general this organization was, the more must it in addition have imposed a corresponding constitution on the trade-corporations themselves. Few in number and little specialized in the pastoral period, these corporations were bound to grow by reason of economic development and the progress of culture. The members of mechanical professions whose services were needed by other groups and corporations could only ensure for themselves a tolerable existence by adapting themselves to the common type.