The eternal struggle between caste and caste for social superiority has become a constant source of ill-feeling....

Want of education is practically universal amongst the depressed classes, but this cannot have been the cause of their fall, for many of the so-called higher classes in India share in the general ignorance.

Unlike them, however, they are unable to attend the ordinary schools owing to the idea that it is pollution to touch them.

To do so is to commit a sin offensive alike to religion and to conventional morality.

Of professions as a means of livelihood these depressed classes have a very small choice.