Cyclopedia universal history : embracing the most complete and recent presentation of the subject in two principal parts or divisions of more than six thousand pages . lo^Vy as Kshatriyas, or companions of theking, and they presently constituted thesecond caste in the system of India. The weaker portions of the immigranttribes settled on the soil and became hus-bandmen. They received vaisyas, or ,1 r TT • *people, con- the name of Vaisyas, signi- gtitutethe thirdfying simply the people. the adventurous spirit requi- The modern name of the Kshatriyas is Rajputs. 678 GREAT RACES OF
Cyclopedia universal history : embracing the most complete and recent presentation of the subject in two principal parts or divisions of more than six thousand pages . lo^Vy as Kshatriyas, or companions of theking, and they presently constituted thesecond caste in the system of India. The weaker portions of the immigranttribes settled on the soil and became hus-bandmen. They received vaisyas, or ,1 r TT • *people, con- the name of Vaisyas, signi- gtitutethe thirdfying simply the people. the adventurous spirit requi- The modern name of the Kshatriyas is Rajputs. 678 GREAT RACES OF MANKIND. site for war, they chose to arrange them-selves in secluded places and villagecommunities, where safety was the chiefconsideration. Whoever in the chaos ofa half-barbarous age chooses safety,chooses subordination. The class ofhusbandmen became subordinate to theKshatriyas, as the latter were in somesense inferior to the Brahmans. Caste always implies a conquered as. A SECOND CASTE PANDIT—TYPE. well as a conquering race. The abo-riginal peoples of India, especially theDravidians, were brought TheSudras; . ° possibility of into Complete subjection. caste promotion, rr^, -, j , Ihey were reduced toservitude. They were called once-born slaves, to distinguish them fromthe noble twice-born Aryan con-querors. These subjugated aborigineswere known, and are still known, by thename of Sudras, between whom and the three superior classes of Aryan descend-ants there is nothing in the other three castes there issome degree of mutation. Sometimesthe Kshatriyas, by learning the hymnsand ceremonies of the national faith, maypass into the rank of Brahmans. Anaspiring Vaisya, or husbandman, maythrow off his peaceful dispositions, goto war, and possibly rnake his way to aplace among the Kshatriyas, orwarrior caste. But the Sudra is aSudra, a slave of slaves, fixed bythe fate of birth to unalterable sub-jection and isolation. In the course of this out
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