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In a period of caste confusion like ours, personal merit and personal achievement take the place of status conferred by birth, by family descent. Social order and social hierarchy of the old kind must today prove their reality or be destroyed by the world-wide tidal wave of uprising.

-- Notebooks Category 15: The Orient > Chapter 2 : India Part 1 > # 254