Word: brahmanical
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...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...
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...
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...