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record existing usages and beliefs. Some people are so im- 
wit e i i 
me to class them under such and such heads, and to show 
their superiority over other rival castes in various particulars. 
other serious difficulty often experienced is the anxiety 
of various castes to advance claims which are not generally 
admitted by their neighbours, or to conceal facts and usages 
which may have the effect of making them rank with castes 
ith a growing tendency to challenge the superiority of the 
Brahman caste, is observed an anxiety to claim the title in 
some form or other for themselves and a tendency to subject 
themselves to fresh restrictions to make good that claim. It 
seems to me that some of these people do not know how well 
off they are, and wish to put on manacles of usages which the 
Brahman is finding burdensome. 
. +f some cases, the more advanced members of a commu- 
uty have organized leagues and gone about among their people, 
telling them what names and titles to give out to the Census 
‘ome Years ago, it is felt (and naturally so felt) that it is de- 
stading, and its existence is denied even where it has not died 
out. One can sympathize with this feeling and it may reason- 
ably be hoped that the feeling is the first step in real reforma- 
nm. In many non-Brahman castes, there are two kinds 
ain in some ec hich do not admit the superiority 
tthe Brahman, they divide themnelres into the standard wo 
me though perhaps their caste or religion was from the 
“et regarded as a protest against the peculiarly Brahmani- 
ma tenets, A number of Gotras are instituted and each family 
“signed some one of them, and directed only to return that 
