“I was also pained to notice an institution which I certainly did not expect to find in this country – I mean caste.”

—  Keshub Chunder Sen

Your rich people are really Brahmins, and your poor people are Sudras.
Speech at Hannover Square Rooms on the occasion of a Soiree held to bid him farewell on 12th September 1870.

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