Show CASTE A BARRIER IN INDIA snobbery S eted into fanatical lous faith pale description of social conditions first ot of all caste Is a question ot of birth and there Is no entry except by birth A worker in a coal mine may become a apart part owner thereof and bis his daughter marry a peer and his its grand son become a peer ot of england no millions will enable the low caste hin du duto to marry into a brahman family or even to touch the hand or throw bis his hado v on the food of a brahman la in india it if a man Is excommunicated by his caste fellows in india no one of the caste mill eat with him accept water from his hands or marry him his ills own wife mile will not touch him or speak with him he ile is dead to his family the barber even will not shave him or cut his hair or his toe A brahman clerk has been known to dl distribute tribute legal documents by thron ng them down at the end of the village street in which live his low caste casto brethren letter carriers have been known to refuse to enter the houses of or to permit themselves to come into personal contact with those of a lower status than them selves it if one could picture to oneself social snobbery lifted into a fanatical religious faith it would mould be a pale description of tie he iron subdivisions of cable in ind a there Is no patriotism I 1 amu and can be none in a country thin thus divided against itself scribner scribners magazine |