Word: brahmanism
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Keynoter of the Mission is the world's No. 1 missionary, lean, fervid, greying E. (for Eli) Stanley Jones, who humbly calls himself "evangelist to the high castes of India." Dr. Jones went to India as a Methodist missionary in 1907, has since converted many a Brahman, written nine books (best-known: The Christ of the Indian Road, with sales past the 600,000 mark), founded at Lucknow the first Christian Ashram (from an Indian word meaning "a forest colony for spiritual fellowship and meditation"). In Indian costume-a long white cloak, tight trousers, sandals-Dr. Jones last summer...
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...
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...