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32 could find no water, and he started for his own hut, hoping to find it there. When he reached his hut his wife told him, however, that there was plenty of water, but only her glass to drink it from. The youngman declined to do so and went without water for some time more. Then he said to his wife that he could not stand it any more. He asked her to take some water into her mouth and to put it into his directly, which the woman did. Whereat the parents of the youngman, who had followed their son quietly and were hiding nearby in the bushes, watching everything, went back satisfied that their son was still firm on his faith and had not been polluted. . This story exaggerates a ridiculous form of the racial prejudice whcih forms the inner core of the. Aryan civilization, but it brings out graphically how deep is the influence of these ideas in India even today. . The result is that the Brahman and non-Brahman question remains as acute today as practically it ever was before. . Sometimes, however, these cultural philosophies get mixed up together, or other things find a way into them. But traces of the original body of the philosophy remain. Accordingly we find that something of this kind is happening in India these days. A long period of British rule and impact of the progress attained by the Western nations have created in this country the seed of Westernism which is getting stronger