Vol. 7, Issue 12, Part C (2021)

Abstract
This gives us a clue to the success of Hinduism in keeping a firm hold upon his heterogeneous elements of the Indian population and its wonderful power of absorbing alien races and cultures, though apparently it is not a pro-selytising religion. The Brahmans would not regard any foreign religion as antagonistic to their own. They would say to the foreigners that their religions were only varieties of the one eternal religion, Brahmanism, and that they belonged to one or other of the four varnas into which the whole mankind was supposed to be divided.