The History of Caste in India: Evidence of the Laws of Manu on the Social Conditions in India During the Third Century A. D.

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Taylor & Carpenter, 1909 - 177 páginas
 

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Página 15 - ... by an inexorable social law to marry outside the group. Each one of such groUps has a special name by which it is called. Several of such small aggregates are grouped together under a common name, while these larger groups are but subdivisions of groups still larger which have independent names. Thus we see that there are several stages of groups and that the word " caste " is applied to groups at any stage.
Página 14 - ... calling ; and regarded by those who are competent to give an opinion as forming a single homogeneous community.
Página 104 - Their dress (shall be) the garments of the dead, (they shall eat) their food from broken dishes, black iron (shall be) their ornaments, and they must always wander from place to place.
Página 13 - Senart goes on to describe a caste as a close corporation, in theory, at any rate, rigorously hereditary; equipped with a certain traditional and independent organization, including a chief and a council; meeting on occasion in assemblies of more or less plenary authority, and joining in the celebration of certain festivals; bound together by a common occupation, observing certain common usages which relate more particularly to marriage, to food, and to questions of ceremonial pollution...
Página 4 - ... pessimistic as to relegate it to the region of the unknowable, for I believe it can be known. The Caste problem is a vast one, both theoretically and practically. Practically, it is an institution that portends tremendous consequences. It is a local problem, but one capable of much wider mischief, for 'as long as caste in India does exist, Hindus will hardly intermarry or have any social intercourse with outsiders; and if Hindus migrate to other regions on earth, Indian caste would become a world...
Página 15 - caste as a social group having two characteristics: (1) membership is confined to those who are born of members, and includes all persons so born ; (2) the members are forbidden by an inexorable social law to marry outside the group.
Página 82 - Ketkar is correct when he insists that "all the princes whether they belonged to the socalled Aryan race, or the so-called Dravidian race, were Aryas. Whether a tribe or a family was racially Aryan or Dravidian was a question which never troubled the people of India, until foreign scholars came in and began to draw the line.
Página 115 - Beat me if you will, kill me if you will, I cannot do what ought not to be done. Fate has already punished me with servitude for the misdeeds of a former life, and I will not incur the penalty of being born again a slave.
Página 49 - The names of women should be easy to pronounce, not imply anything dreadful, possess a plain meaning, be pleasing and auspicious, end in long vowels, and contain a word of benediction.
Página 28 - Savage nations are subdivided into an infinity of tribes, which, bearing a cruel hatred toward each other, form no intermarriages, even when their languages spring from the same root, and when...

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