The cross or the poundWhich? A talk on the modernization of civilization in India with application to the Hindu and Hinduism . ty of the office-holders and civil-serviceemployees have to struggle along as best they canuntil the happy day comes, when, with pension as-sured, they can go to the home country and, as theysay, live like white men. SWIRL AND SWASH. Caste, that subject upon which so many writershave expended voluminously, and my avoidance ofwhich up to this time has, I presume, excited sur-prise, is, like other features of India life, exagger-ated beyond real importance. It is
The cross or the poundWhich? A talk on the modernization of civilization in India with application to the Hindu and Hinduism . ty of the office-holders and civil-serviceemployees have to struggle along as best they canuntil the happy day comes, when, with pension as-sured, they can go to the home country and, as theysay, live like white men. SWIRL AND SWASH. Caste, that subject upon which so many writershave expended voluminously, and my avoidance ofwhich up to this time has, I presume, excited sur-prise, is, like other features of India life, exagger-ated beyond real importance. It is replete withaspects unique to us, and which, in nowise fittinginto our interchanging relations, they easily inciteinterest. We wonder how such as is told can be,without disturbing and disorganizing everythinghaving to do with mans intercourse with forget our manner of life is as enigmatical tothe Hindu as that of the Hindu is to us. Hisdevelopment being upon radically different founda-tion, and knowing nothing whatever of us, howcould we expect him to follow on our lines ? From example, as afforded by the English. .g^-LiT 184 THE SWIRI. AND SWASH. population in their midst, you say. You wouldappreciate the irony of this could you but spendsome time in the Empire and have the entreeinto European circles. Caste! The Hindu, in-tense as is his antipathy to anything or everythingapproaching a violation of the tradition he hasinherited, and which his religion has fostered untilit is principle actuating him, has not the half of theworry and vexation of spirit in the constant fear ofinfracture which characterizes the European. The English take naturally to fetichism in classdistinction. They are born and bred to it and yieldto the phantasmagoria of India life distinguished bya fanaticism which discounts the Hindu latter is so imbued with the sense of hissuperiority from birth that its maintenance is easy,nay, more, graceful and dignified. On the other hand, it is pr
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