Excerpt from Original Sanskrit Texts, Vol. 1: On the Origin and History of the People of India, Their Religion and Institutions The Introduction (pp. 1 - 6) contains a very rapid sur vey of the sources from which our information on the} subject of caste is to be derived, viz. The Vedic hymns; the Brahmanas, the Epic poems, and the Puranas, 111 which the chronological order and the general charac teristics of these works are stated. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.