<Li> Endogamy, restrictions on marrying a person outside caste, but in some situations hypergamy allowed . Far less rigidity on inter-marriage between different sub-castes than between members of different castes in some regions, while in some endogamy within a sub-caste was the principal feature of caste - society . </Li> <P> The above Ghurye's model of caste thereafter attracted scholarly criticism for relying on the British India census reports, the "superior, inferior" racist theories of H.H. Risley, and for fitting his definition to then prevalent colonial orientalist perspectives on caste . </P> <P> Ghurye added, in 1932, that the colonial construction of caste led to the livening up, divisions and lobbying to the British officials for favourable caste classification in India for economic opportunities, and this had added new complexities to the concept of caste . Graham Chapman and others have reiterated the complexity, and they note that there are differences between theoretical constructs and the practical reality . </P> <P> Ronald Inden, the Indologist, agrees that there has been no universally accepted definition . For example, for some early European documenters it was thought to correspond with the endogamous varnas referred to in ancient Indian scripts, and its meaning corresponds in the sense of estates . To later Europeans of the Raj era it was endogamous jatis, rather than varnas, that represented caste, such as the 2378 jatis that colonial administrators classified by occupation in the early 20th century . </P>

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