ABSTRACT
The path of social reform, like the path to heaven, is strewn with many difficulties. The Social Conference was a body which mainly concerned itself with the reform of high-caste Hindu family. The fallacy of the Socialists lies in supposing that, because, in present stage of European Society, property as a source of power is predominant, the same is true of India or that the same was true of Europe in past. Religion, social status, and property are all sources of power and authority, which one man has, to control the liberty of another. Civilised society undoubtedly needs division of labour. The Caste System is not merely a division of labourers, which is quite different from division of labour——it is a hierarchy in which the divisions of labourers are graded. There are many occupations in India which, on account of the fact that they are regarded as degraded by the Hindus, provoke those who are engaged in them to aversion.
