Missionary Visitor, The (1912) . A Hindu Beg-g-ar. Reproduced from the Chronicle. CASTE: ITS POWER S. P. Berkebile MANS caste, in In-dia, is his destiny. Itdetermines his socialstanding and relation-ship. The castes donot intermarry. Tochange caste is nextto impossible and ifone chances to breakcaste by disobeyingsome of its rules, thewhole community boycotts and even os-tracizes him. He cannot even remainwith his own family unless they shouldhave been in the transgression also. Noone will touch him. No one will workfor him, unless it be one of the lowest. caste men. No one will come to his ai
Missionary Visitor, The (1912) . A Hindu Beg-g-ar. Reproduced from the Chronicle. CASTE: ITS POWER S. P. Berkebile MANS caste, in In-dia, is his destiny. Itdetermines his socialstanding and relation-ship. The castes donot intermarry. Tochange caste is nextto impossible and ifone chances to breakcaste by disobeyingsome of its rules, thewhole community boycotts and even os-tracizes him. He cannot even remainwith his own family unless they shouldhave been in the transgression also. Noone will touch him. No one will workfor him, unless it be one of the lowest. caste men. No one will come to his is the problem a caste man faceswhen he wants to become a Christian. The time was when the twice-bornHindu could not travel on the train with-out being considered defiled because ofhaving rubbed up against some one of thelower caste; but now they are becomingmore lenient and adjusting themselvesto modern improvements (thanks toChristianity and its leavening influence).However, they have their own caste wa-ter carriers at all of the principal rail-road stations, and when the train stopsthey will go back and forth along thetrain, crying out, Brahmine Parnee! Brahmine Parnee! (water for Brah- April1912 The Missionary Visitor 129 mins! etc.)- But those who cross theocean to Europe or America must makeatonement when they return, by sub-mitting to one of the following ordeals:His tongue is slightly burned with apiece of heated gold; he is branded in-delibly on different parts of his bodywith red-hot irons; he is made to walkbarefooted over red-hot
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