CHAPTER VIII .-- CASTE.
Valuable to rural populations.
My inquiry limited to its rural and practical effects on life.
Its moral effects as regards the connection of the sexes.
Its value in limiting the use of alcohol.
Morality in Manjarabad superior to that of England.
Widows may contract a kind of marriage.

The value of caste in socially segregating inferior from superior races.
The mental value of the separation caused by caste.
The separation caused by caste has not hindered advancement amongst the rural population.

The Coorgs an instance of this.
Disadvantages of caste as regards town populations.
Instances of the evils of caste amongst the higher classes in the towns.
Inquiry as to how far caste has acted beneficially in opposing the existing interpretation of Christianity.
Worthlessness of pure dogmas when adopted by a degraded people.
Native Christians readily revert to devil worship in cases of danger or sickness.
Native Christians neither better nor worse than the low-classes from which they are usually drawn.

Experience of the Abbe Dubois.
The upper class peasantry having to give up caste would be injured by being converted.
The town population would not be injured by conversion.
Causes of the outcry against caste.
Its alleged tendencies.
The way to retain the good and lessen the evil of caste.
To become a Christian our missionaries compel the entire abandonment of caste.

Their version of Christianity wisely rejected.
Mischievous action of our missionaries as regards caste.