It has also made a mockery of democracy, as each caste becomes a vote bank for political parties leaving no scope for individual decision-making. It has divided society into various rigid categories. Those who have read the essay earlier, or know it better than just a reading, can proceed to page 14 directly.Ĭaste is one of the most challenging social institutions of India.
If you have not, I strongly suggest that you read the essay separately before you read this version with commentary. Caution: The commentary assumes that you have read this essay earlier, independent of intepretation and evaluations. This commentary is under a Creative Commons AttributionNonCommercial ShareAlike 4.0 International License. Some of the paragraph breaks are mine, for clarity about the lines on which I comment. The commentary is in a different and smaller italic font, and has a few clickable links (in blue and underlined) to pages on the web. The commentary, will remain more or less the same. If there are any copyight issues, please use some other version.
I am using this version of the text because it was the most easily accessible on the web.
This is a commentary, occasionally critical, to remember that it was a hundred and one years ago that this text was presented (read out) by this young scholar, studying for his M.A. This is not an explication, or even a reading/ interpretation. The attempt here is to see positively what this young researcher says, and how he thinks, how he arrives at what he does. Editing has consisted only of numbering the paragraphs and fixing a few typographical errors.
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