Show CASTE A BARRIER IN INDIA ibbey into fanatical fanatic lous lou faith palo pal description lon of f social conditions condition first of all cuts Is a question ot of I 1 birth and chwe Is I 1 no co entry except by birth A worker in a coal mine may become a part owner thereof and his hi daughter marry a peer pear and his grandson grandion become a peer ot of england no millions will enable the low caste hindu to marry into a brahman family or even to touch the hand or throw hl his shadow the food of a brahman in india it if a man Is excommunicated by his caste fellows in india no one of the caste will eat cat with him accept water from rom his hands or marry him ills his own wife will 1011 not touch him or speak with him ile he Is dead to his family the barbe even will not shave him or cut hie hi hair or his toe nails A brahman clerk has been known to distribute legal documents by throwing them hem down at the end of 0 the village street in which live his low casto 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 of a lower status than themselves if one could picture to oneself social snobbery lifted into a fans fanatical religious faith it would be a pale description of 0 the iron subdivisions of caste in india there Is no patriotism and can be none in a country thus divided against itself set magazine |