The New World Order of Islam — Page 55
New World Order 55 able (to do it); for a Sudra who has acquired wealth, gives pain to Brahmins ( Laws of Manu , Tr. by G. Buhler, X, 129). Under this law a Brahmin or a Vaishya might collect millions, but if a Sudra should happen to save as much as five rupees to defray the expenses of his daughter’s wedding it is the duty of the State to take away from him even this petty amount, merely because he is a Sudra and because a Sudra cannot save money. What scope is left here for any system which aims at improvement in the lot of the poor? Again, it is written, "Even by (personal) labour shall the debtor make good (what he owes) to his creditor, if he be of the same caste or of a lower one; but a debtor of a higher caste shall pay it gradually (when he earns something). " (Op. cit. , VIII, 177). Operation of this law again would tend to keep a Sudra poor or to make him even poorer and to free a Brahmin from obligations he may owe to Sudra. Far from affording any relief to the poor, it would tend only to add to their misery. This doctrine of discrimination between the castes goes much farther. In the Case of the death of a person leaving behind him widows belonging to different castes, it is written: "Or let him who knows the law make ten shares of the whole estate, and justly