THE

INDIAN ANTIQUARY

A JOURNAL OF ORIENTAL RESEARCH

IN

ARCHÆOLOGY, EPIGRAPHY, ETHNOLOGY, GEOGRAPHY, HISTORY, FOLKLORE, LANGUAGES,
LITERATURE, NUMISMATICS, PHILOSOPHY, RELIGION, &c., &c.

EDITED BY

SIR RICHARD CARNAC TEMPLE, BART, C.B., C.I.E., F.S.A.

HON. FELLOW, TRIN. HALL, CAMBRIDGE,
FORMERLY LIEUT.-COLONEL, INDIAN ARMY.

AND

Prof. DEVADATTA RAMKRISHNA BHANDARKAR, M.A.

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VOL. XLVI.—1917.

BOMBAY:

Printed and Published at the BRITISH INDIA PRESS, Mazgaon, Bombay.

LONDON:

BERNARD QUARITCH LIMITED, 11 GRAFTON STREET,
NEW BOND STREET, W.

[All Rights Reserved.]

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CASTES IN INDIA.

Their mechanism, genesis and development.1

BY BHIMRAO R. AMBEDKAR, M. A.

Many of us, I dare say, have witnessed local, national, orinternational expositions of material objects that make up the sumtotal of human civilization. But few can entertain the idea of therebeing such a thing as an exposition of human institutions. Exhibitionof human institutions is a strange idea; some might call it thewildest of ideas. But as students of Ethnology I hope you will not behard on this innovation, for it is not so, and to you at least itshould not be strange.

You all have visited, I believe, some historic place like the ruins ofPompeii, and listened with curiosity to the history of the remains asit flowed from the glib tongue of the guide. In my

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