List of Paragraphs
- [1. The Central Provinces.]
- [2. Constitution of the population.]
- [3. The word ‘Caste.’]
- [4. The meaning of the term ‘Caste.’]
- [5. The subcaste.]
- [6. Confusion of nomenclature.]
- [7. Tests of what a caste is.]
- [8. The four traditional castes.]
- [9. Occupational theory of caste.]
- [10. Racial Theory.]
- [11. Entry of the Aryans into India. The Aryas and Dasyus.]
- [12. The Sūdra.]
- [13. The Vaishya.]
- [14. Mistaken modern idea of the Vaishyas.]
- [15. Mixed unions of the four classes.]
- [16. Hypergamy.]
- [17. The mixed castes. The village menials.]
- [18. Social gradation of castes.]
- [19. Castes ranking above the cultivators.]
- [20. Castes from whom a Brāhman can take water. Higher agriculturists.]
- [21. Status of the cultivator.]
- [22. The clan and the village.]
- [23. The ownership of land.]
- [24. The cultivating status that of the Vaishya.]
- [25. Higher professional and artisan castes.]
- [26. Castes from whom a Brāhman cannot take water; the village menials.]
- [27. The village watchmen.]
- [28. The village priests. The gardening castes.]
- [29. Other village traders and menials.]
- [30. Household servants.]
- [31. Status of the village menials.]
- [32. Origin of their status]
- [33. Other castes who rank with the village menials.]
- [34. The non-Aryan tribes.]
- [35. The Kolarians and Dravidians.]
- [36. Kolarian tribes.]
- [37. Dravidian tribes.]
- [38. Origin of the Kolarian tribes]
- [39. Of the Dravidian tribes.]
- [40. Origin of the impure castes.]
- [41. Derivation of the impure castes from the indigenous tribes.]
- [42. Occupation the basis of the caste system.]
- [43. Other agents in the formation of castes.]
- [44. Caste occupations divinely ordained.]
- [45. Subcastes. local type.]
- [46. Occupational subcastes.]
- [47. Subcastes formed from social or religious differences, or from mixed descent.]
- [48. Exogamous groups.]
- [49. Totemistic clans.]
- [50. Terms of relationship.]
- [51. Clan kinship and totemism.]
- [52. Animate Creation.]
- [53. The distribution of life over the body.]
- [54. Qualities associated with animals.]
- [55. Primitive language.]
- [56. Concrete nature of primitive ideas.]
- [57. Words and names concrete.]
- [58. The soul or spirit.]
- [59. The tranmission of qualities.]
- [60. The faculty of counting. Confusion of the individual and the species.]
- [61. Similarity and identity.]
- [62. The recurrence of events.]
- [63. Controlling the future.]
- [64. The common life.]
- [65. The common life of the clan.]
- [66. Living and eating together.]
- [67. The origin of exogamy.]
- [68. Promiscuity and female descent.]
- [69. Exogamy with female descent.]
- [70. Marriage.]
- [71. Marriage by capture.]
- [72. Transfer of the bride to her husband’s clan.]
- [73. The exogamous clan with male descent and the village.]
- [74. The large exogamous clans of the Brāhmans and Rājpūts. The Sapindas, the gens and the γένος.]
- [75. Comparison of Hindu society with that of Greece and Rome. The gens.]
- [76. The clients.]
- [77. The plebeians.]
- [78. The binding social tie in the city-states.]
- [79. The Suovetaurilia.]
- [80. The sacrifice of the domestic animal.]
- [81. Sacrifices of the gens and phratry.]
- [82. The Hindu caste-feasts.]
- [83. Taking food at initiation.]
- [84. Penalty feasts.]
- [85. Sanctity of grain-food.]
- [86. The corn-sprit.]
- [87. The king.]
- [88. Other instances of the common meal as a sacrificial rite.]
- [89. Funeral feasts.]
- [90. The Hindu deities and the sacrificial meal.]
- [91. Development of the occupational caste from the tribe.]
- [92. Veneration of the caste implements.]
- [93. The caste panchāyat and its code of offences.]
- [94. The status of impurity.]
- [95. Caste and Hinduism.]
- [96. The Hindu reformers.]
- [97. Decline of the caste system.]