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CONTENTS

 PREFACE

PART I: A COMPARATIVE SURVEY

Untouchability Among Non-Hindus

Untouchability Among Hindus.

PART II:         PROBLEM OF HABIT

Why do the Untouchables Live Outside The Village?

Are The Untouchables Broken Men ?

Are There Parallel Cases ?

How Did Separate Settlements For Broken Men Disappear Elsewhere ?

PART III: OLD THEORIES OF THE ORIGIN OF UNTOUCHABILITY

Racial Difference as the Origin of Untouchability

Occupational Origin Of  Untouchability

PART IV: NEW THEORIES OF THE ORIGIN OF THE UNTOUCHABILITY

Contempt for Biddhist as the root of Untouchability

Beef-eating as the root of Untouchability

 PART V: THE NEW THEORIES AND SOME HARD QUESTIONS

Did the Hindus Never Eat Brief?

Why Did Non-Brahmins Give Up Beef-Eating?

What Made the Brahmins Vegetarians?

Why Should Beef-Eating Make Broken Men Untouchables?

PART VI: UNTOUCHABILITY AND THE DATE OF ITS BIRTH

The Impure And The Untouchables

When Did the Broken Men Become Untouchables?