Show CASTE A BARRIER IN INDIA snobbery sifted into fanatical bellg lou ious faith pale description of cf social conditions first of all caste casta Is a question of birth and there la is no entry except by birth A worker ina coal mine may become a part owner thereof and his daughter marry a peer and his grandson become a peer of england no millions will enable the low caste hindu to marry into a brahman family or even to touch the hand or throw his shadow sn on the food of a brahman in india it if s z man Is excommunicated by his bis caste fellows in india no one ot of the casu will eat with him accept water from tile tila hands bands or marry him ills ilis own ife III not touch him or speak with him he Is dead to his family the barber even will not shave shava him or cut his big hair or his toe nails A brahman clerk has baa been known to distribute legal documents by throwing them down at the end ot of the village street in which live his low caste brethren letter carriers have been known to refuse to enter the bouses of or to permit themselves to lo come into personal contact with those of a lower status than themselves eel res it one could picture to oneself social snobbery lifted into a fanneral fan nUral religious faith it would be a pale description script lon of the iron subdivisions of 0 caste in india there Is no do patriotism and can be none in a country thus divided against itself scribners magazine |