England And India, An Essay On the Duty of Englishmen Towards the Hindoos
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" Debased as the Pooleahs are, there exists through- out India a caste called Pariahs, still more abject and wretched. If a Pooleah by any accident touches a Pariah,' he must go through many ablutions before he can be cleansed from the impurity. The Pariahs not only feast upon dead carcases, but eat beef and carrion of every kind. The * London Quarterly, Oct. 1857, p. 230. S 274 RAISING THE OPPRESSED CLASSES. Brahmins of Malabar have thought proper to place Chris- tians in the same rank with th...e Pariahs." * Brothers thus in the endurance of Hindoo contempt, we should be united by the injustice done to us both; but other cir- cumstances invite us to take them under our protection. Pariahs, who are ill-treated by the Hindoo superstition, have as much reason to wish its overthrow, as the Brahmin, whom it enriches and honors, has to labor for its perpetua- tion. With none of the fears of losing caste, which render the castes reluctant even to hear the gospel, they are much more accessible to instruction than others ; and seeing under British rule, dignity, comfort, and wealth attainable by their industry, instead of the irremediable misery to which the Hindoo system dooms them, they have every reason to wish our dominion to be permanent.
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