Word: brahmanic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Suspecting a religious feud between Sikhs (dissenters from Brahmanic Hinduism) and Hindus (Sant Ram Pande was of the Brahman caste), police combed East Indian colonies up and down the Sacramento and San Joaquin valleys. The day following the discovery of the body, three Sikhs were found hiding in a barn near Fairfield, 15 mi. from the scene of the crime. Also in the barn officers discovered a harrow with a wheel similar to that found with Pande's body. At Pande's cremation two Sikhs quarrelled, one was stabbed...
...Here Brahman Moonje described minutely atrocious methods employed by the police of British India when dispersing crowds of non-violent Gandhite demonstrators for independence. News editors throughout the U. S. unanimously suppressed these details as unprintable. The gist: after tearing off Gandhite loin cloths, the police perpetrated upon the exposed parts painful indignities...
Well knowing that white men would doubt his charge, Brahman Moonje read into the record the explicit testimony of a white woman eyewitness, Miss Madeline Slade, daughter of a British Admiral, disciple of St. Gandhi. What Dr. Moonje read has just been published in the U. S. by Simon & Schuster on pages 158-160 of Philosopher Will Durant's The Case for India...
Before the Conference divided to work in committees, Hindu Brahman Moonje with the Mohammedan Aga Khan and princes of both persuasions signed an epochal private pact of alliance with Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar representing India's 45,000,000 lowly Untouchables (lowest class...
...surprised," smiled Brahman Moonje at flabbergasted correspondents who know that Brahmans have been for centuries to Untouchables as white men to black, only more so. "The caste system is now rapidly breaking down. In the last three months there have been in Bombay more than 1,000 intermarryings between high castes and low castes, between Hindus and Mohammedans...