The Times articles on "Indian Unrest" maintain their interest. That
of Saturday last deals with the depressed castes, the pariahs, or, to speak more correctly, the Pan- chamas,—i.e., all Hindus who do not belong to the four highest or clean castes. While conceding that Hinduism does admit of a very slow evolutionary process by which the Panchamas may ultimately hope to emerge amongst the inferior Swims, the writer points out that this process is infinitely slow, and that the National Congress movement has done scarcely anything to give practical effect to its theoretic repudiation of a social system which condemns fifty out of two hundred and seven millions of Hindus to a life of unspeakable degradation. The social gulf remains immense, and the only practical work -of reclamation has been done by Christian missions, notably in Southern India, where remarkable results have been achieved in the Telugu country, or by conversion to Islam.
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