Abstract
MR. O'MALLEY quotes a remark by Lord William Bentinck, when the prohibition of suttee was under consideration, that the question was not what the rite was, but what it was thought to be. His own account of Indian caste customs is quite in this spirit. His object is to show how the caste system works in the everyday life of India, without entering into any inquiry as to origins, or the origin of specific castes and groups except in so far as present conditions are thereby affected. He writes for those whose knowledge of caste is at best superficial, and shows how it works in the spheres of social position and intercourse, marriage and morals, internal regulation and external control, food and drink, and occupations.
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