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There were also immense problems of diversity and disunity. Indians speak some 200 dialects, including 14 distinct major languages. India's teeming masses are bedeviled by almost every form of intolerance known to man. The mutual religious antipathy between Hindus (303 million), Moslems (35.4 million) and Sikhs (6.2 million...
Even Worse Lot. Many of India's 8,000,000 Christians are indeed "poor and backward," i.e., untouchables. These humble folk hoped, by choosing Christianity, to win freedom from the yoke of caste, which confined them to such jobs as cleaning toilets and sweeping up after India's...
But 3,000 years of caste dies slowly. In most of India's 560,000 villages, untouchables are still forbidden to enter Brahmans' living areas, use their wells, or watch them eat. Temples are theoretically open to them, but they are still purged with milk -floor, walls, ceilings...
Chasing Whales. Manjiro was the fisherman son of an impoverished Japanese widow. In the feudal Japan of his day, a boy of such low caste could hope for nothing except a life of toil and a full belly each day if he was lucky. But Manjiro was luckier than that...
In story after story, the cut of the waistcoat or the shape of a vowel is used-as it can be used only in a caste-conscious country-to indicate character. The U.S. reader may be baffled by the careful way in which, in The Evolution of Saxby, Bates makes...