... lived in remote areas. During Breman's period of observation, they became agricultural workers for the land-owning, higher caste Brahmins. Breman quotes J.A. Baines, who suggested that the migration of Brahmins into new regions, previously occupied by tribals, created a system of land servitude ... The code programmed into the person's body influences his or her varna, jati, gender, and personality: "code and substance cannot have separate existences in this world of constituted things, as conceived by most South Asians" (Marriott 110). Marriott and Inden explain one's varna ... , The wo...

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... with Hamidullah's wife, a distant aunt of Aziz, they go to the table, and the servants bring them dinner. Aziz quotes poetry, to the delight of the other guests, but is called away by a servant of the British Civil Surgeon, Callendar. ... his mother that he is not in India to be pleasant--he is there to establish justice and keep the peace. Mrs. Moore chastises him for being self-satisfied, and reminds him that God is love, and that God ... his visit. Outdoors, it is palpably hot; the early summer heat is swelling around them, and they hastily go their separate ways. Before Fielding ca...

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