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26. At page 379 the learned Judge, Tek Chand, J. observed as follows:

The learned Counsel for the appellants, while conceding that the statement of the law enunciated above could not be challenged, contended as a last resort that the rule could not be extended to inter-marriages of males of the " 'pure' Sudra caste like the Jat with women of the 'unclean' classes, 'touch with whom was pollution. He was, however, unable to cite any authority in support of this contention. In Gout's Hindu Code at page 199, Section 294 (4) the so-called 'untouchable' classes including Chamars, Pariahs and Mehtras are described as Sudras and in the leading case of Muthusami Mudaliar v. Masilamani (1909) I.L.R. 33 Mad. 342 : 20 M.L.J. 49 it was held by Sankaran Nair, J. (Abdur Rahim, J. concurring) that for the purposes of the rule aforesaid, all Hindus other than those belonging to the three regenerate classes were to be treated as Sudras, marriages between different sub-sections of whom were valid.