Indian Culture (Journal of the Indian Research Institute) April - June 1946

The excellent character of this new Journal and the high standard of articles published in it and the enterprise and devotion of the group of the Bengali scholars seem to make Indian Culture rightly and completely fill the great void created by the unfortunate discontinuance of the II great epoch-making Journal the Indian Antiquary. [...] The functional and occupational basis of the caste naturally led to the gradation of the caste—some being at the top in the social scale and others low—and some so low as to be deemed untouchable—according to the nature of the work performed by each. [...] ) The cows and Vigah are urged together for action tending the cattle agriculture trade etc.—in fact the rest of the activities in the social economy of the Aryan society minus those performed by the Brahmans and the Ksatriyas were performed by the ViAah. [...] But in the literatures of the period before the time of Manu the author of Manusmrti we find pointed references that the Brahmans followed the occupation of arms. [...] The priesthood did not entail a complete absorption in temple duties '.1 In Babylonia the prince was the high-priest of the town's god the king the high-priest of the national gods.2 In Egypt in the beginning the royal family personally took part in the Osirian rites; but after the very early date specialists and professional priests of the funeral cult became indispensable when rituals became co