Caste in India: The Facts and the System c8.s6.32

c8.s6.32

The subsequent mingling of the two races could only promote this tendency, for thereby these precedents acquired the strength of habits and hereditary instincts. Did not the old framework become consolidated as more and more laggards found their way into Hinduism? The organization of the tribe, although transformed into a system of castes under the influence of conditions which I am endeavouring to explain, was a natural enough point of contact for conquerors and conquered, given their respective states of civilization.