Word: brahmanic
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...state, Kerala, but are having troubles there, and have made surprisingly little headway among the mass of peasants and workers. Across India, steel mills are going up, cities expanding, the red earth being diligently gouged for canals, dams, roads. Among the young, caste distinctions are losing importance, and some Brahman students even do special tutoring among their Untouchable classmates. Universities now graduate more and more engineers and technicians instead of the former stream of lawyers and white-collar unemployables...
Wild-eyed with fright, a herd of 33 Brahman steers bellowed into Kansas City, Mo. last week on their way to a feeding lot to be fattened for market. After an emergency call for help to K.C.'s Jensen-Salsbery Laboratories, the steers were as contented as cows in clover. The reason: Jensen-Salsbery's new animal tranquilizer made of ethyl isobutrazine (trade name: Diquel...
...mixed lot-and Indians do not mix well. There were not only the company troops but regiments in the service of Queen Victoria, and in the ranks discipline was snarled up in India's ancient caste system, e.g., a low-caste sergeant would kiss the feet of a Brahman private...
...Discovery of India. For a few years after his return to India, the rebel in Nehru was submerged in the English gentleman. He settled down in Allahabad, married a suitable Kashmiri Brahman girl (chosen by his father) and practiced law in desultory fashion. But before long, boredom and the rising tide of Indian nationalism swept him into the revolutionary politics of the Indian National Congress Party. And once he met Gandhi, the die was cast. Two men more diverse than Nehru and the frail little Mahatma could hardly be imagined. Devoted to the scientific socialism of the tractor...
Only a few reconverts turned up. They sat cross-legged on the grass before pig-tailed Brahman pundits for half an hour's chanting of the Vedas, washed themselves with water from the sacred Ganges, and dropped incense on a fire of camphorwood and herbs. "You are again pure," said a swami. "You are once again Hindus...