Word: brahmans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...birth of Man Singh, a son of the proud Thakore clan in India's northern Agra district, a Brahman priest predicted that he would one day grow up to "become a terror to kings." But as a boy Man Singh was remarkable only for his mild and conscientious disposition. He took no part or interest in the traditional blood feuds between Brahman and Thakore that raged constantly in the Rajput countryside west of the Taj Mahal. He clothed himself in the handspun cloth of humility known as Khadi to show his allegiance to Gandhi, and in hawk-nosed, dignified...
Woman of Low Repute. In 1931, however, Man Singh fell into a dispute with the same prophetic Brahman priest, over a property line that separated their two estates. In the midst of the dispute, the priest saw fit to establish a low-caste mistress in his house. The upright Singh, married and the father of children, was outraged. He charged the Brahman with polluting the neighborhood and demanded that the priest get rid of his girl friend. The priest refused; angry words flew; other Brahmans and other Thakores joined the ruckus. Before it was over, the priest and three...
...recent years, the increasingly modern-minded Hindu has begun to look with less favor on his sacred cattle. The "dedicated bulls," which from time immemorial have been set free to roam the country as walking memorials to dead Hindus, are no longer of carefully selected, high-breed (Brahman) stock as they once were, but more often cheap, scrub calfs with little breeding and less manners. Their cows are mostly skilled and shifty thieves who are set free by their owners each day to filch and pillage in other men's gardens, garbage cans and vegetable stalls before returning home...
...holds that "the spectacle of what is called religion . . . has filled me with horror," exposed himself to the spectacle again last week and proceeded to horrify the devout. At the dedication of a new textile-industries research building in the city of Ahmadabad, Nehru grew stone-faced when a Brahman priest placed a tilaka mark on his forehead. The priest chanted some monotonous slokas, and Nehru began to fidget in annoyance. The Brahman then grasped the Prime Minister's shoulders and asked him to touch the wall of the building in a ceremonial gesture of blessing. At this, Nehru...
...great help to TIME'S coverage of the vast Indian territory is Achal Rangaswami's intimate knowledge of the country. A 27-year-old Brahman, son of a prominent Madras lawyer who was a leader in the Congress movement, Rangaswami joined the New Delhi bureau seven years ago as a stenographer and interpreter, gradually became indispensable and was raised to full-correspondent status two years ago. Much in demand as guide and interpreter for traveling U.S. correspondents and authors, he has shepherded such visitors as John Gunther, Vincent Sheean. Margaret Bourke-White and David Douglas Duncan, who knew...