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?