Word: brahminism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tool but it is potent. Last September a six-day fast nearly killed him but forced a settlement between the caste Hindus and the Untouchables, which was accepted in principle by the British Government (TIME, Oct. 3). In December a 36-hour fast got another prisoner, a high-caste Brahmin, the right to do Untouchables' work as penance. For his new fast, he asked for the world's prayers, commanded that he be let alone in his cell...
What should a Christian think of a Brahmin? Have Christian foreign missions finished their work? Has their value in the Far East declined? Should they go on? Questions like these were interesting to laymen of seven U. S. Protestant denominations* whose 57,000-odd churches and ten million-odd members spent nearly $15,000,000 in 1931 on foreign missions...
Oscar Wilde swathed her in orchidaceous epigrams. The learned Sir Edmund Gosse called her "the most accomplished living poet of India." Even Queen Victoria was impressed by Sarojini Chattopadhyav, the brilliant daughter of a fabulously rich Hindu of the highest Brahmin caste - but all that was years & years...
...political discrimination. Louis Dembitz Brandeis, 73, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, heads the other school. He would create jobs in Palestine. Then let Jews migrate and find the jobs. This is rationalistic, the sort of plan one might expect from a Jew who is almost a Boston Brahmin...
...India there exists a class once oppressed and styled "the untouchable" by Brahmin priests, who now enjoy comparative freedom. To them England's rule is obviously preferable. In the north are the Mohammedans sure of a paradise gained across the bodies of dead infidels. Against them, at the present time at least, England's defense is imperative. Practically every great plague that has scourged Europe originated in India; and the scalpel and the microscope of western science would still be a definite loss. The weakness of Mahatma Gandhi lies in his rejection of all western influence, just as the weakness...