Travel Perspectives

English Rule & self Government

Caste System

Education

Diversity of Tribes

Industrial Efficiency

Prosperity increasing & standards of living

[Juggling act?] [at?] Madras Whirls 8 ft circmfc solid wood 16 inches thick 3 ft higher man's head

St. Thomas Cathedral Madras Grave of doubting Thomas (concng [???] I cls & am a D. T.)

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Editor "The Hindoo" Madras

People much better satisfied but expect more from government

caste System Many thgs hv grown up that [imprd?] the progress of the people

People seeing advtgs of new lders & caste system losing

[crossed out text] [Pd?] [offer?] [end crosssed out text]

A La [Bork?]

If anybody of higher-caste touch woman of lower caste outcaste he become outcaste

Social repugnance

Enforced marriage parents immorality

3 high castes [???] birth [???] [???]

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Mr. K. Dyer Krishnaswami Dyer

Brahmin caste head of all

Common mistake all psts

10% of Brahmins priests (probably less)

I am not priest, [crossed out] not [end crossed out] none of [???] priest I [???] priest

hv not made thgs cmftbl for

Priests rcv gifts

Brahmin caste emblem self denl fdtn of caste

Lust of money invaded Bhm caste

ablst [low?] [???] or more

up to 2000 years ago self deial

other castes justly angry

I acpt atk md on Brhms

dcdng

Equality jst [fit?] [mod?] [civlztn?]

Western knowledge rebel agst

[Man?] [???] [wh?] [bracketed text] [lnrs?] sldrs mchts svts [end bracketed text]

I don't thk yo can Ever get away frm [svts?] [???] [Svc?]

[bracketed text] [???] nations barbarians any [one?] civilaztn had to

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[???] its integrity

No difc in blood in 3 castes absltly no bld division

Gvts probably aboriginal rolls

transition possible early years

Grt Brahms warrior

Present day mixture probably mixtr aryan & non-aryan

[crossed out text] Dfc in [end crossed out text] No inherent difc

Grt maj Hvn-ordained caste

As a [???], a few agrsly ^(& [???]) hostile

[bracketed text] prepdc of privg prepdc of [???]

Ev Brhmns, lg nos. of Educ Brh., thk they can no lgr clm prlgs accorded to ancestors [end bracketed text]

Brahmin not eat non-Br

One sectn Brh "[ditto] ' "[ditto]

[???] caste multiply

No

Tk many, many decades to bg intermrg

inter-dining more hopeful; less

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& less oppstn to sub-castes interdining

Ocsnl caste with other caste Intlcte [???] growing

Foreign image, frmly regarded thg impsbl fr Hindus now a [concern?] Inter-dine people no caste Retn, smtms cermny "[ditto] not

Less & less tdcy to mk

Little [???]

In [???] 20 yrs, [???] [???] [voyage?] [subdued?] inter-dning go; [???]

[???] [???] ^(no caste) dn with Hindoo another caste

Impt: foreign [voyages?]

Incs. rwy trvl, non ex-[clsns?] sept meal sept corner

Congress bging people to sense of unity

Lord [Morley?]'s reforms hv dn mch to brg Eng & ntvs [together?]

People of provinces hav rezd much grtr sense of