An explicit hostility towards the heathen priesthood was not helped by
the inability of the messengers of god’s word to convert brahmins to
christianity. The authority of the caste is a check on the possible
abuse of their power by the princes.
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Sri aurobindo, while praising the original caste system, does not spare
it in its later stages: "it is the nature of human institutions to
degenerate; there is no doubt that the institution of caste
degenerated.
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Caste riven though the population was, these groups may be likened to
the fingers of one's hand, perpetually separated, yet perpetually
co-operating.
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But finally, have the people who dismiss caste as an aryan imposition
on the dravidians, or as an inhuman and nazi system, ever attempted to
understand its original purpose and genius?
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The brahmins, made a circle within which they cooked their food. So did we. We were a caste, pariahs to them, princes in our estimation. The compulsions of imperialism negated all passions for democratic equality or christian egalitarianism.
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