CASTES IN INDIA

Many of us, I dare say, have witnessed local, national or international

expositions of material objects that make up the sum total of human

civilization. But few can entertain the idea of there being such a thing as

an exposition of human institutions. Exhibition of human institutions is a

strange idea ; some might call it the wildest of ideas. But as students of

Ethnology I hope you will not be hard on this innovation, for it is not so,

and to you at least it should not be strange.