ABSTRACT
The attempt to view race and caste within the same framework of understanding could take us in two different directions. In the first place, we might consider to what extent systems of stratification based on caste (as in India) and on colour (as in the Southern United States) can be regarded as analogous in structure; this is a problem in comparative sociology. In the second place, we might ask how far in India caste distinctions correspond to differences in physical or racial type; this problem is of more special interest to students of Indian society and history.1
