| Show the caste system r this Is a social system in india the population is divided into a large number of hereditary groups which refuse to have anything i to do to with members of any other group in some parts pans of india there are as many as two hundred of these the groups any member bof 0 o which would be considered tainted if 1 he be so nuch as sat down at a table with a member of 0 a lower caste the system Is now being rapidly broken down dmn by the influence of the he british castes are supposed oscil to have had bad their origin in the successive conquests of the country by peoples from the north with each conquest the superior caste was as supplanted by a conquering caste these different classes refused to intermarry ter marry and for the most part the individuals followed tile the occupations of their fat fathers bers the word caste is now loosely applied to the different social classes in any country the pathfinder |
