97. Decline of the caste system.
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39 Manu, viii. 113.
40 Hopkin’s and Burnett’s Code of Manu, x. 64, 65, and footnotes.
41 Mahābhārata, xiii. 2510 et. seq., quoted by Wilson, p. 272.
42 Manu, ix. 149, 157.
43 Manu indeed declares that such children could not be initiated (x. 68), but it is clear that they must, as a matter of fact, have been capable of initiation or they could not possibly have been married in the father’s caste.
44 See article on Brāhman for some further details.
45 Wilson, Indian Caste, i. 440, quoting Brahma Vaivarrta Purāna.
46 See article Bhāt for further discussion of this point.
47Dolichos uniflorus.
48 See article Jāt for a more detailed discussion of their status.
49Tribes and Castes of Bengal, art. Khandait.
50 Proprietors of large landed estates.
51 See article on Kunbi, para. 1.
52Village Communities, p. 127.
53History of the Marāthas, vol. i. p. 25.
54Village Communities, pp. 226, 227.
55The Aryan Household, ed. 1891, p. 190.
56Ibidem, p. 228. Professor Hearn followed Sir Henry Maine in thinking that the clan was an expansion of the patriarchal joint family; but the reasons against this view are given subsequently.
57Memoir of Central India, vol. ii. p. 22.
58La Cité antique, 21st ed. pp. 66, 68.
59La Cité antique, 21 st ed. pp. 66, 68.
60Nigeria, quoted in Saturday Review, 6th April 1912.
61Religion of the Semites, p. 96.
62 See article Sunār for a discussion of the sanctity of gold and silver, and the ornaments made from them.
63Michelia champaka, a variety of the jack or bread-fruit tree.
64 See article Darzi for further discussion of the use of sewn clothes in India.
65 See articles on Bhulia, Panka, Kori and Julāha.
66 Traill’s Account of Kumaon, Asiatic Researches, vol. xvi. (1828) p. 213.
67Tribes and Castes of Bengal, art. Bāri.
68 Pointed out by Mr. Crooke.
69 The Marāthi name for the god Hanumān.
70Linguistic Survey, vol. iv., Munda and Dravidian Languages, p. 7.
71Acacia catechu.
72 See article on Gond.
73Linguistic Survey, p. 15.
74 Introduction to The Mundas and their Country, p. 9.
75Linguistic Survey, p. 277.
76 See for this the article on Kol, from which the above passage is abridged.
77 Bombay Gazetteer, vol. xii. p. 175.
78Cochin Census Report, 1901, quoted in Sir H. Risley’s Peoples of India, 2nd ed. p. 115.