[Footnote 3:  One of the Zoroastrian Persians who fled to Western India at the beginning of the eighth century A.D.  At the census of 1901 they numbered 94,190.  They are most numerous in the city of Bombay.]

[Footnote 4:  Asiatic Studies, I.]

[Footnote 5:  Ibid., I. iii.]

[Footnote 6:  Quinquen, Report on Education in India, 1897-1902.]

[Footnote 7:  For an apparently contrary view, see Census of India, 1901, Report, p. 430:  “Railways, which are sometimes represented as a solvent of caste prejudices, have in fact enormously extended the area within which those prejudices reign supreme.”  The sentence refers to the influence of the fashion of the higher castes in regard to child marriage and prohibition of the marriage of widows.]

[Footnote 8:  Sir W.W.  Hunter, England’s Work in India.]

[Footnote 9:  The manifold origins of castes are fully discussed in the newest lights in the Census of India Report, 1901.]

[Footnote 10:  Miss Noble [Sister Nivedita], finds herein an apology for caste.  “The power of the individual to advance is by this means kept strictly in ratio to the thinking of the society in which he lives.” (The Web of Indian Life, p. 145.)]

[Footnote 11:  Sir A. Lyall, Asiatic Studies, I. v.:  “A man is not a Hindu because he inhabits India or belongs to any particular race or state, but because he is a Brahmanist.”  Similarly Census of India, 1901, Report, p. 360:  “The most obvious characteristics of the ordinary Hindu are his acceptance of the Brahmanical supremacy and of the caste system.”]

[Footnote 12:  Harvest Field, March 1904; Madras Decen.  Missionary Conference Report, 1902.]

[Footnote 13:  Introduction to Translation of the Ishopanishad.]

[Footnote 14:  Benares Hindu Coll.  Maga.  Sept. 1904.]

[Footnote 15:  Karkarin:  Forty years of Progress and Reform, p. 117.]

[Footnote 16:  Census of India, 1901, Report, pp. 496, 517, 544.]

[Footnote 17:  Miss Noble [Sister Nivedita], Web of Indian Life, p. 133.]

[Footnote 18:  Report, Census of India, 1901, p. 163.]

[Footnote 19:  Census of India, 1901, Report, p. 163.]

[Footnote 20:  Census of India, 1901, Report, p. 522.]

[Footnote 21:  Lux Christi, by C.A.  Mason, p. 255. 1902.]

[Footnote 22:  In Italy, in 1891, the sexes were almost equal, being males 1000 to females 995.]

[Footnote 23:  Census of India, 1901, Report, p. 115.]

[Footnote 24:  A case of Suttee is reported in the Bengal Police Report for 1903.]

[Footnote 25:  Report, Census of India, 1901, pp. 442, 443.]

[Footnote 26:  Justice Amir Ali, Life and Teaching of Mohammed.]