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1 Note on the History of the Caste System. 515- 



Central Konkan, and the Shenvi Brahmans and Kudali Banya 

 in the Sonthern Konkan. 



The above evidence will perhaps be enough to show that the 

 jurisdiction of the Hindu kings was a very important factor in 

 the development of the caste system, and that a certain propor- 

 tion, at any rate, of the existing sub-castes, show traces of 

 having arisen from the castes of the old Hindu kingdoms. The 

 theory of course will not account for the origin of all the castes 

 of the present day, nor does it throw any light upon the ultimate 

 origin of the caste system. But it does account, in part at least, 

 for the multiplicity of castes which takes the place at the present 

 day of the simple social structure known to the Sanskrit law- 

 books . 



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