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Bishop Arundale, 54, has a comely, high caste Hindu wife named Rukmini, whom he married 13 years ago when she was 15. She has remained Hindu in faith because ''once a Hindu, always a Hindu. We do not always adapt ourselves to the new. I am in sympathy...
Next in Chicago convened the National Education Association. Retiring President Joseph Rosier Leduoff: "When as a condition of making loans, the banking interests of Chicago, Boston, New York or any other community attempt to tell the educational authorities how to run their schools, they are stepping outside their sphere." Said...
The bride was a Brahman, highest of the four Hindu castes.* The Gandhis belong to the Vaishya or shopkeeper caste. While many marvelled, Devadas Gandhi knelt before a roaring fire in a ceremony of purification, was married by a saffron-robed priest who mumbled that henceforth he would be entitled...
Though the ceremony was hailed as "revolutionary," though Brahman sticklers feel themselves polluted should the shadow of an Untouchable fall across their food, marriages between the three upper classes are not unknown, orthodox Hindus being less scandalized when the bride is of the higher caste as was the case last...
*Brahman, the intellectual; Kshatrya, the soldier; Vaishya, the merchant; Sudra, the laborer. The Untouchables, fifth social class, are not strictly a caste.