Elaborate casteism as a berrier of social change
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Caste, the rural community, and the joint family have contributed to social and cultural solidarity in India, where differences of race and culture were likely to provoke perpetual conflict. Although they make up an interwoven compact and solid structure they are plastic, bending to economic forces. Through the caste system the aboriginal tribes have been gradually absorbed into Hindu social organization. As peasants, artisans, and traders rise in the economic scale, they rise also in caste, not as individuals but as groups. Almost unceasing are the processes of differentiation and fusion of castes and subcastes, especially in the lower rungs of the Hindu social ladder. With the growth of cities and of industrial development caste has abandoned many of its restrictions and has demonstrated its adaptability to become the guild or trade-union in the new system of industry.