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...and to disturb this distinction would mean war. The obstacle to a united India are to be found in things which to us appear the merest trivialities but to India with her religious reverence for custom become insurmountable barriers.
Caste rules, also complicated beyond the comprehension of any Westerner are a certain preventive of unity or democracy. Yet it must be said that there is a minority, the proud descendants of the old India, happily emancipated from ignorance and superstition, who dream the restoration of India to her former greatness and of a united nation taking its place among the world's nations.