The New Review August 1939

The attitude of the Union of South Africa after all the sweet exchanges of the Hofmeyr delegation and Hofmeyr's personal protests—not to speak of the Gandhi-Smuts Agreement of 1914 the Cape Town Agreement of 1927 and the Fulham Commission of 1932—is even more difficult to understand. [...] Besides these IndChinese Mongolian elements there are the distinctly Mongoloid Limbu of Nepal the Rong-pa or Lepcha of Sikkim and Nepal besides the slightly Mongoloid Kanet of the Kangra and Kulu hills and the Gurkha of Nepal and the still less Mongoloid Thdru and Bogsha of the Himalayan Tarai and certain districts (Bareilly Pilibhit Gorakhpur Basti Gonda Kheri and Bahraich) of the Un [...] Some of the more advanced pre-Dravidian tribes would also appear to have established flourishing settlements in the valleys of the Ganges the Jumna the Sone and other rivers of northern and norteastern India ; some112 THE NEW REVIEW had been absorbed among the Dravidian population through miscegenation ; and the more backward among the pre-Dravidian tribes receded to the jungles and hills. [...] Eggeling observes : 'Even before the two Asiatic branches of the Indo-Germanic race the Aryans of India and of Iran separated the three social grades of the royal or military and the priestly classes and below them the vig or bulk of the Aryan community appear to have been in existence.' The Vedic scheme of Chaturvar#ya or the fourfold classification of human society was meant to embrace all [...] 194-5) wrote of the Indian caste system : `It has abolished the hateful distinction between rich and poor the high and low in position which so characterises the class distinctions in Europe and has substituted instead the national and professional spirit and assigned the highest rank to learning and piety coupled with the practice of austerities which take the sting out of the jealousy again