Caste in India: The Facts and the System c8.s6.41

c8.s6.41

We no longer live in the days when it was permissible to represent Buddhism or Jainism as attempts at social reform directed against the caste-system.¹ The illogical resignation with which they have bowed to it shows, on the contrary, how deeply rooted it was in the Hindu conscience at the time of their foundation, and how intimately wedded to those beliefs, those fundamental ideas, such as the doctrine of moral merit, of metempsychosis and of final deliverance, which they receive without protest as their inheritance.