| Show CASTE A BARRIER IN INDIA Snob snobbery bory sifted into fanatical loue ious faith pale description of social conditions first of 0 all caste Is a question ot of birth and there la Is no entry except by birth A worker in a coal mine may become a part owner thereof and hla his daughter marry a peer and his grandson become a peer of england no millions will enable the low caste hindu to marry luto a Dra brahman braan family or even to touch tho the land hand or throw his shadow on an tho the food of a brahman in india it if a man Is excommunicated by his caste fellows in india no one of the caste casie will eat a ith him accept water from hla his hands or marry him ills is own wife mill aill not touch him or speak with him lie he Is dead to hla his family the barber even will not shave him or cut his hair or his toe nails callb A Br brahman oliman clerk has been known to distribute legal documents by throwing them down at the end of the village street in which live his low caste brethren letter carriers have been known to refuse to enter the houses of or to permit themselves to come into personal contact with those ot of a lower status than themselves it if one could picture to oneself social snobbery lifted into a fatin religious faith it would bo be a pale description of 0 the iron subdivisions of 0 caste in india there Is no patriotism and can bo be none in a country thus divided against itself magazine |
