Caste in India: The Facts and the System c8.s6.21

c8.s6.21

The triumphant theocracy which crystallized the rules of caste in their systematized form sprang from those very elements from which the caste directly derived its origin and the source of its being. Thus it is that the hierarchy of the castes, determined by the Brahmans, or at least inspired and maintained by them, was enabled to oust the earlier state, thus reabsorbing the looser organization of the classes.