Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 72, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 May 1899 — Caste in India. [ARTICLE]

Caste in India.

Iu India, that land of iron caste, a barber’s son must be a barber, and must marry a barber’s daughter. He goes about looking for trade and shaves his customer in*the street, both squatting on their heels while the operation Is being performed. He is a manicure and a chiropodist as well, and sometimes works in a family for $1.25 to $2 a month.