Caste in India: The Facts and the System c8.s6.6

c8.s6.6

It can be neither by chance nor by some modern revival that caste precisely covers the whole domain of the old gentile law. Still less is it by chance that its most peculiar practices are exactly related to primitive ideas, the spirit of which they keep alive. The whole is complete, perfectly consistent, and closely welded to the past, and this in a matter which exercises supreme dominion over life and its most intimate concerns. It is therefore an organic institution drawing its vitality from very deep sources.