Word: brahmanic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Graduation took three key men Brahman Gibbs '36, Captain Richard Maguire '36, and Harraut J. Adsignian '36 from last year's outfit, which tied Dartmouth for the League championship...
...only to adjust her glasses or steady her hat. Stagehands had left with the musicians so members of the cast were obliged to manipulate the curtains. Electricians went also, so there was no attempt at lighting. But hit-or-miss the performance, with Edouard Albion as Nilakantha. the fanatic Brahman priest, went on to the end which came...
...bride was a Brahman, highest of the four Hindu castes.* The Gandhis belong to the Vaishya or shopkeeper caste. While many marvelled, Devadas Gandhi knelt before a roaring fire in a ceremony of purification, was married by a saffron-robed priest who mumbled that henceforth he would be entitled to worship and act as a Brahman. Hindus in the audience knew that no matter what the priest said Devadas Gandhi will always be considered a Vaishya...
Though the ceremony was hailed as "revolutionary," though Brahman sticklers feel themselves polluted should the shadow of an Untouchable fall across their food, marriages between the three upper classes are not unknown, orthodox Hindus being less scandalized when the bride is of the higher caste as was the case last week...
...Brahman, the intellectual; Kshatrya, the soldier; Vaishya, the merchant; Sudra, the laborer. The Untouchables, fifth social class, are not strictly a caste...