Caste is a 1930 British drama film directed by Campbell Gullan and starring Hermione Baddeley, Nora Swinburne and Alan Napier. It was made at Walton Studios. Michael Powell worked on the screenplay and (uncredited) was involved with the technical side of direction. Cast Hermione Baddeley as Polly Eccles Nora Swinburne as Esther Eccles Alan Napier as Capt. Hawtree Sebastian Shaw as Hon. George d'Alroy Ben Field as Albert Eccles Edward Chapman as Sam Gerridge Mabel Terry-Lewis as Marquise Percival Coyte Critical reception Film historian Geoff Brown writes, "most of the film’s enlivening spice comes from the jolting surprises of tone and manner as Gullan’s cast and Powell’s visuals glide or lurch through a scenario pleasingly punctured with camera trackings, lively spots of audiovisual montage and dramatically piquant closeups. (Watch for the carefully judged shots of hands delivering and receiving a crucial telegram regarding D’Alroy’s fate.)...the film is not a fossil; it is a lively embryo, and the first important step towards Powell’s future." References

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Notable quotes

“Not by birth does one become an outcaste, not by birth does one become a brahman. By one's action one becomes an outcaste, by one's action one becomes a brahman.”
— Gautama Buddha, Sutta Nipata 136
“The early Indo-Aryans could no more have thought in modern terms of the race prejudice than they could have invented the airplane.”
— O.C. Cox in 1948, quoted from Elst, K., The strange case of Savitri Devi also quoted in [[Elst, Koenraad] (1999). Update on the Aryan invasion debate New Delhi: Aditya Prakashan.
“'It would be a mistake to suppose that Buddhism and Jainism were directed from the outset consciously in opposition to the caste system. Caste, in fact, at the time of the rise of Buddhism was only beginning to develop; and in later days, when Buddhism commenced its missionary careers, it took caste with it into regions where upto that time the institution had not penetrated.'”
— Sir W.W. Hunter: W.W. Hunter: Imperial Gazetteer 1907; quoted in J. Kulkarni: Historical Truths, p.27.
“For far too long, education in India has been seen by the establishment as a ‘civilising’ mission designed to make adivasis and dalits into mental clones of the upper castes, even if they continue in their subordinate jobs. Merit is defined merely as efficiency in achieving this goal.”
— Nandini Sundar, Why India Needs Scheduled Tribes to Educate its Future Judges, 28 April 2020, The Wire
“It was indeed a great day not only for the Sikhs but also for the whole of India when Guru Govinda, defying the age-long conventions of the Hindu society, made his followers one, by breaking down all barriers of caste and thereby made them free to inherit the true blessings of a self-respecting manhood. Sikhism has a brave message to the people and it has a noble record.”
— Rabindranath Tagore, Letter to Mahadevi Desai, 4 January 1937. Quoted in The Essential Tagore, Cambridge, Massachusetts : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2011.

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Notable quotes

“Not by birth does one become an outcaste, not by birth does one become a brahman. By one's action one becomes an outcaste, by one's action one becomes a brahman.”
— Gautama Buddha, Sutta Nipata 136
“The early Indo-Aryans could no more have thought in modern terms of the race prejudice than they could have invented the airplane.”
— O.C. Cox in 1948, quoted from Elst, K., The strange case of Savitri Devi also quoted in [[Elst, Koenraad] (1999). Update on the Aryan invasion debate New Delhi: Aditya Prakashan.
“'It would be a mistake to suppose that Buddhism and Jainism were directed from the outset consciously in opposition to the caste system. Caste, in fact, at the time of the rise of Buddhism was only beginning to develop; and in later days, when Buddhism commenced its missionary careers, it took caste with it into regions where upto that time the institution had not penetrated.'”
— Sir W.W. Hunter: W.W. Hunter: Imperial Gazetteer 1907; quoted in J. Kulkarni: Historical Truths, p.27.
“For far too long, education in India has been seen by the establishment as a ‘civilising’ mission designed to make adivasis and dalits into mental clones of the upper castes, even if they continue in their subordinate jobs. Merit is defined merely as efficiency in achieving this goal.”
— Nandini Sundar, Why India Needs Scheduled Tribes to Educate its Future Judges, 28 April 2020, The Wire
“It was indeed a great day not only for the Sikhs but also for the whole of India when Guru Govinda, defying the age-long conventions of the Hindu society, made his followers one, by breaking down all barriers of caste and thereby made them free to inherit the true blessings of a self-respecting manhood. Sikhism has a brave message to the people and it has a noble record.”
— Rabindranath Tagore, Letter to Mahadevi Desai, 4 January 1937. Quoted in The Essential Tagore, Cambridge, Massachusetts : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2011.

Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.

Caste is a 1930 British drama film directed by Campbell Gullan and starring Hermione Baddeley, Nora Swinburne and Alan Napier. It was made at Walton Studios. Michael Powell worked on the screenplay and (uncredited) was involved with the technical side of direction.

Overview

Caste is a 1930 British drama film directed by Campbell Gullan and starring Hermione Baddeley, Nora Swinburne and Alan Napier. It was made at Walton Studios. Michael Powell worked on the screenplay and (uncredited) was involved with the technical side of direction. Cast Hermione Baddeley as Polly Eccles Nora Swinburne as Esther Eccles Alan Napier as Capt. Hawtree Sebastian Shaw as Hon. George d'Alroy Ben Field as Albert Eccles Edward Chapman as Sam Gerridge Mabel Terry-Lewis as Marquise Percival Coyte Critical reception Film historian Geoff Brown writes, "most of the film’s enlivening spice comes from the jolting surprises of tone and manner as Gullan’s cast and Powell’s visuals glide or lurch through a scenario pleasingly punctured with camera trackings, lively spots of audiovisual montage and dramatically piquant closeups. (Watch for the carefully judged shots of hands delivering and receiving a crucial telegram regarding D’Alroy’s fate.)...the film is not a fossil; it is a lively embryo, and the first important step towards Powell’s future." References

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