[6] Quinquen, Report on Education in India, 1897-1902.
[7] For an apparently contrary view, see Census of India, 1901, Report, p. 430: "Railways, which are sometimes represented as a solvent of caste prejudices, have in fact enormously extended the area within which those prejudices reign supreme." The sentence refers to the influence of the fashion of the higher castes in regard to child marriage and prohibition of the marriage of widows.
[8] Sir W.W. Hunter, England's Work in India.
[9] The manifold origins of castes are fully discussed in the newest lights in the Census of India Report, 1901.
[10] Miss Noble [Sister Nivedita], finds herein an apology for caste. "The power of the individual to advance is by this means kept strictly in ratio to the thinking of the society in which he lives." (The Web of Indian Life, p. 145.)
[11] Sir A. Lyall, Asiatic Studies, I. v.: "A man is not a Hindu because he inhabits India or belongs to any particular race or state, but because he is a Brahmanist." Similarly Census of India, 1901, Report, p. 360: "The most obvious characteristics of the ordinary Hindu are his acceptance of the Brahmanical supremacy and of the caste system."
[12] Harvest Field, March 1904; Madras Decen. Missionary Conference Report, 1902.
[13] Introduction to Translation of the Ishopanishad.
[14] Benares Hindu Coll. Maga. Sept. 1904.
[15] Karkarin: Forty years of Progress and Reform, p. 117.