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Show RULING RACE MUCH WORRIED Caste Question In India Threatens: to Make Trouble for the Britisher In Control of Country. Tho spirit of social Justlco has reached India, and, as a consequence It Is becoming difficult to distinguish genuine Volsyas from their Bundra Inferiors. In-feriors. Many Vnlsyna castes, In their turn, aro claiming to be Kshtrls, and aro openly wearing tho sacred thread of tho twice born. Among tho latter, tho tendency to assume a higher rank than ono was born with manifests mani-fests itself In tho endeavor of tho sub-castes sub-castes to break Into the excluslve-ness excluslve-ness that surrounds tho highest. "II this process continues," remarks the Calcutta Englishman, "a time must soon como when all tho native Inhabitants In-habitants of Indln, excluding tho Mohammedans, Mo-hammedans, will pretend to Brahmin blood." It Is dimcult for a dweller In tho new world to bo greatly disturbed over this possibility, but ono can understand un-derstand tho bard position of a western west-ern government which must be careful care-ful In conferring titles of office upon natives lest It upset agelong custom. What England docs 1b to recognize differences of this sort by giving or withholding the style of "his highness," high-ness," according to tho circumstances of the case Thus n ruling chief of Charcoli, If thero woro ono, would be called "II. II. tho Maharajah of Char-coll." Char-coll." A mero prominent cltlten whom the government raised to povj-er, povj-er, however, would hare to be content con-tent with somo such designation aa "Maharajah Dlshen Sing Itawat, of Charcoli." But somehow this does not sufflco, especially when the prominent prom-inent citizen takes pains to sign himself him-self "Maharajah of Charcoli," and his prlvato secretary puts "H. H." before be-fore tho signature. |