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CONTENTS

CHAPTER V

CASTE AND RELIGION

Stratification of caste
Hinduism and Islam
Railways and religion

Fetishism ,...••••*

Shamanism . . . • • •
Animism . . . • • • •

The best term available ••••••

Ideas underlying Animism
Impersonal elemental forces .
Origin of unworshipped Supreme Beings
Beginnings of religion . • • ■
The ghost theory

Growth of ancestor-worship • • . •

Animism in India

Relation between Animism and popular Hinduism .
Illustration of Animistic ideas .
The Sri Panchami and Animism
Sources of Animistic usages

Pantheism . . . . '.....

Transmigration and Karma

Lucian on Karma.......

Ancient Paganism and modern Hinduism

Adaptiveness of Paganism . .

Weaker than Hinduism in metaphysics and ethics .

Stronger in national sentiment . . • • ■•

Statistics of religion

Increase of Muhammadans

Influence of conversion . - •

Influence of Christianity on th' . -stes

Causes of its failure with the high castes

Nationalism and the Arya Samaj

The Samaj and the Khatris . . . •

The future of Hinduism . i • • • *

CHAPTER VI
■/ THE ORIGIN OF CASTE

The origin of caste .••••••*

The Indian theory

Its historic elements . . • • • • *

Its probable origin ..••'••*"

The Indian and Iranian classes
 
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