It is reasonable to assume that the caste system, contrary to the popular images of its changelessness, has always been characterized by the efforts of various jatis to raise themselves in the social order. |
The coordinative mechanism of tradition, resting as it does on the perpetuation of social roles, is marked by a characteristic changelessness in the societies in which it is dominant. |
It is not only their isolation that has enabled them to preserve ancient ways of life, however, but also that they regard changelessness as being of the highest value. |
The very landscape, cluttered with history, was disconcertingly filled with evidence of the changelessness of things. |
If we look at the changelessness of divine power, whatever God could do he still can do. |
And yet for those five days in May cricket offered a vision of continuity and changelessness. |