ABSTRACT
IT is worthwhile re-examining the main aim of this book, which has been to enquire into the nature of the caste and subcaste. In general, I have agreed with the position held by Ghurye and already quoted: ‘… though it is the caste that is recognized by the society at large, it is the subcaste that is regarded by the particular caste and the individual’. With few exceptions, people outside it regard the caste as an undifferentiated population, and behave in the same way towards all its members.
