
A STUDY OF CASTE
A STUDY OF CASTE - P. LAKSHMI NARASU
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Individualism or nationalism of any kind is antagonistic to the fertility and growth of science. Resting on the blind belief in soul, its Karma, and its transmigration, caste can never bring about that social development which is the necessary condition for the growth of science. Caste makes it impossible to understand and estimate the claims of others in comparison with our own and to enter into relations with an ever widening. community. Hindu spiritually is the index of an early stage of conscious life, which is lacking in all those qualities which make for social development. The inevitable result of Hindu spirituality is the galling yoke of inferiority trampling a large portion of mankind. Only by discarding caste and all doctrines that give it succour will such mingling be possible as will create good fellowship and complete equality. Progress consists not in the trappings of glittering mechanism, nor in high buildings and long streets, but in the breaking down of barriers, in the release of individuality, in the enrichmenf of personality, in the widening of community. The ideal of progress is the completest possible harmony of all men, all interests, and all communities.
புத்தகம் 3 - 5 நாட்களில் அனுப்பி வைக்கப்படும்.