Modern Review May 1913

Amir Khusru the famous poet was the tutor of this prince and used to preside in the prince's literary society and the place chosen for the meeting of the members of this society was the prince's palace. [...] The artisan class in the towns comes next in importance — the weavers the shoemakers the factorhands the blacksmiths and tinsmiths the carpenters and masons. [...] He moulds into shapes of beauty the cotton the raw hide the uncouth timber of the forest the formless mass of metal from the mine. [...] The theory of the four Castes assigns the third and fourth places to the laboring classes while the priests and the soldiers stand at the top. [...] The princes give the peasant's money for the establishment of Universities for the sons of the rich and the respectable.