Word: brahmanism
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Oxford-educated Indira (she studied history) was a disciple of Gandhi, worked as a girl among untouchables in city slums, joined the embattled Congress Party. In 1942, she defied her Brahman father by marrying an obscure Parsi lawyer named Feroze Gandhi (no kin to the Mahatma), with him was jailed by the British for 13 months on charges of subversion. She spent her prison term teaching illiterate convicts. After five years and two sons, she left Feroze to return to Nehru's rambling mansion in New Delhi; her husband died...
...this seemed pretty untouchable to Samant's well-to-do Brahman family back in Bombay. His father, a high school principal and English teacher, balked at both the sarangi and art as a career for his son-after all, the sarangi is played to accompany dancing prostitutes, and painting is an illustrator's skill. At first, Samant clerked for a British oil company, but at 20 he began five years of study at Bombay's Sir J. J. School of Art. He copied Bashaivali and Jain miniatures to learn design and color, but, says he, "they...
...BRAJ KUMAR NEHRU. Hunganan-born Shobha Nehru met her husband, a cousin of Jawaharlal's, when they were students in London, and married him in 1935 over the protests of his Brahman family. She has "Indianized" the embassy, throws parties with a strictly Indian flavor. The food, says one guest, "is sometimes unrecognizable but always delicious...
...philosophical thicket seems denser to the Western eye than Hinduism, and no country more confusing than India. In this long, densely packed novel of the intellectual and emotional odyssey of a high-caste Brahman, Indian Author Raja Rao offers an intimate look at Indian family life seen from the inside, and a sometimes illuminating, sometimes bewildering tour of the strange-blooming intricacies of Hindu thought as his hero grapples with the mundane practicalities of the West. With a novelist's illusionist skill, Rao makes it all as fascinating as a basketful of talking cobras...
...fence killed a whole line of cattle leaning against it. Another time, a swarm of husky Florida mosquitoes smothered a herd of cattle by clogging their noses and throats. Some animals have become so rattled at having their hoofs trimmed that they have broken their backs, and one prize Brahman bull being flown to a show in South America managed to work open the plane door and leap...