Malle starts the episode by interviewing Thomas Howard, a US Peace Corps agricultural specialist who's one of 700 volunteers there, then he shows footage from Haryana, a village in Northwest India with a huge Muslim influence. Various activities are shown, and Malle explains the four main caste categories--Brahmans (priests), Kshatriyas (warriors), Vaisyas (peasants, merchants) and Sudras (which serve the others)--as well as the Untouchables (outcasts), Harijan (backward classes) and the quarantined (those who lack any caste). He states that in India, the relationship between people is important and not the individual. Dhobi, the lowest rank of the Untouchables, are shown doing everyone's laundry. He adds that while many think caste is an Aryan innovation from about 3,000 years ago, it may have originated in even earlier Indian civilizations. He shows a funeral procession, with 'mourners' celebrating to the tune of 'For He's a Jolly Good Fellow'. With the metaphors of a blind camel endlessly forced to travel a circle to mix cement, and two teams of players playing a mixture of Red Rover and Greco-Roman wrestling, devolving into a huge free-for-all, Malle makes the claim that if India is going to prosper, it won't take fertilizer or irrigation but the changing of minds, which he feels won't take place anytime soon, both because the lowest classes don't want education of agricultural reform even if it's legislated, and those in charge of education are the Brahmans, who constitute the highest caste level. He completes the episode by showing a façade of democracy, as a village leader (sarpanch), accused of embezzlement, goes free because of his ties to the government, which consists of his caste.