#‎Law_OF_Caste‬ From ‪#‎रिसले_स्मृति‬ People Of India पेज -29

#‎Law_OF_Caste‬ From ‪#‎रिसले_स्मृति‬ People Of India पेज -29
"Even more striking is the curiously close correspondence
between the gradations of racial type indicated by the nasal
index and certain of the social data ascertained by independent
enquiry. If we take a series of castes in Bengal, Bihar, the
United Provinces of Agra and Oudh, or Madras, and arrange
them in the order of the average nasal index, so that the caste
with the finest nose shall be at the top, and that with the
coarsest at the bottom of the list, it will be found that this
order substantially corresponds with the accepted order of
social precedence. Thus in Bihar or the United Provinces the
casteless tribes, Kols, Korwas, Mundas and the like, who have
not yet entered the Brahmanical system, occupy the lowest
place in both series. Then come the vermin-eating Musahars
and the leather-dressing Chamars. The fisher castes, Baud,
Bind, and Kewat, are a trifle higher in the scale ; the pastoral
Goala, the cultivating Kurmi, and a group of cognate castes
from whose hands a Brahman may take water, follow in due'
order, and from them we pass to the trading Khatris, the
landholding Babhans and the upper crust of Hindu society.
Thus, for those parts of India where there is an appreciable
strain of Dravidian blood it is scarcely a paradox to lay down,
as a law of the caste organization, that the social status of the
members of a particular group varies in inverse ratio to the
mean relative width of their noses. Nor is this the only point
in which the two sets of observations—the social and the
physical—bear out and illustrate each other"".