Jasper County Democrat, Volume 8, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 October 1905 — Loss of Caste. [ARTICLE]

Loss of Caste.

In the year 171U5 Lord Clive and Mr. Verel.st employed the whole Influence of the English government to restore a Hindoo to his caste who had forfeited It, not by any neglect of his own, but by having been compelled by a most unpardonable act of violence to swallow a drop of cow broth. The Brahmans, from the peculiar circumstances of the case, were very anxious to comply with the wishes of the government. The principal men among them met at Kishnagur and once at Calcutta, but after consultations and an examination of their most ancient records they declared to Lord Clive that there was no precedent to Justify the act. They found it Impossible to restore the unfortunate man to his caste, and he died soon after of a broken heart.—Bydney Smith’s “Hssays on Indian Missions.”