Word: brahmans
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...that the currents were dangerously fierce that year, forbade the ablutions, and erected a high palisade to keep the pilgrims from the water. Thereupon thousands of Hindus, disciples of Gandhi, squatted before the palisade in the scorching sun, hour after nonviolent hour. Among them was a young, Cambridge-educated Brahman named Jawaharlal Nehru. As he recalls...
...shares all the Socialist's emotional tenets about the capitalist order. In consequence, he has the Socialist's undisguised contempt for capitalism, reinforced by the aristocratic Brahman's contempt for the bania (shopkeeper) caste. He speaks of the "bania civilization of the capitalist West," of the West's "cutthroat civilization." Utterly unlike Gandhi, he admires modern production methods, and wants to bring them to India (he has announced that India will in time develop her own atomic energy program). But as a Socialist he believes that capitalism, after its prodigies of production, is bound to make...
...Indian wit once described Jawaharlal Nehru as "a constantly expanding bundle of contradictions." Nehru is an aristocratic Brahman who turned Socialist, a fervent Asian nationalist who went to Cambridge and drank thirstily if not deeply of Western culture, a devout disciple of Gandhi's nonviolence who more than once has been known to beat rowdy followers over the head with a chair. In London last week, Nehru exhibited another specimen from his bulging bundle of contradictions. In one breath, he urged the U.S. to show "sympathy and understanding" toward Communist China, at all cost avoid further conflict in Asia...
...First, Brahman priests bathed the dead man's body in holy Ganges water, placed a green tulsi leaf between his lips and marked his forehead with yellow sandalwood paste and red kumkum powder. Then, in the late afternoon, a gun carriage drawn by Indian soldiers, sailors and airmen carried the body through Bombay's streets while vast crowds mourned and planes overhead showered the procession with flowers. Finally, at the cemetery, the dead man's son poured incense and ghee (semifluid butter) over the body and lit the pyre. Watching the rising flames, Jawaharlal Nehru sobbed...
...Evolved from crossing the English Shorthorn with India's hardy Brahman...