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CONTENTS
Portrait or Dubois
Frontispiece
PAGES
Editor's Preface to Third Edition
ni-iv
Prefatory Note by Max Muller
Editor's Introduction
v-vii
viii-xxviii
.
Author's Preface
1-13
PART
I.
General View of Society in India, and General Remarks
on the Caste System.
—
Division and Subdivision of Castes.
Castes pecu-
Provinces. Particular Usages of some Castes.
Parentage.
Subordination
of
founded
on
Division of Castes
Outward Signs of certain Castes. Division of Caste-
Castes.
14-27
groups into Right-hand and Left-hand
Chapter
I.
—
liar to certain
—
—
—
—
Chapter
II.
Advantages resulting from Caste Divisions.
Similar Divisions amongst
Chapter III.
gradation
is inflicted.
—Methods
many Ancient
Expulsion from Caste.
— By whom
Nations
.
.
27-37
inflicted.
of effecting it
Chapter IV.
.
— Cases in which such De-
— Restoration to Caste.
....
—
Antiquity and Origin of Caste
38-44
44-48
V.
The Lower Classes of Sudras. Pariahs. Chuck-
Contempt in which they
lers, or Cobblers, and others equally low.
Pariahs strictly speaking Slaves. Washermen, Barbers,
are held.
and some others. Disrepute into which Mechanical Skill has fallen.
Nomads and Vagabonds. Gypsies. Quacks. Jugglers. Wild
49-80
Tribes, &c.
Chapter
—
—
—
—
Chapter VI.
Chapter VII.
Name and
Origin.
—
—
The Poverty
of the
Chapter VIII. Different Kinds
by which they are distinguishable
of
80-97
—
Brahmins. Their
Conjectures on their True
97-108
of the
—
......
—
.....
—
their Original Founders.
— Buddhists and Jains
....
Hindus
The Mythical Origin
—
—
—
Brahmins.
Outward Signs
108-111
Chapter IX. The different Hindu Sects. Vishnavites and
Sivaites.
The Exterior Marks and Customs peculiar to each.
The Pavadam. The Mutual Hatreds and Differences between the
—
Sects.
—
— Reason for the Dislike which ordinary Brahmins
feel for
—
.....
—
Vishnavite Brahmins and those belonging to other Sects.
divisions of the two Principal Sects
Chapter X.
true Guru,.
The Gurus,
or
Hindu
Priests.
The
Sub-
111-123
Portrait of a
— Their Temporal and Spiritual Power. — The Fear and