Word: brahminization
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...natural that this great and good friend of Britain should have a pucka (proper) Brahmin funeral. But attempts by the British Ambassador, Lord Crewe, to have his corpse burned on a funeral pyre in the open air met with numerous difficulties, and it was ultimately decided to have his remains cremated. His body, dressed in royal robes, wearing the royal jewels, was reduced to cinders in the furnace of a crematorium...
...cleverly told, is a product of older Harvard : Elam Dunster, great-great-grandsired by a Harvard president returns to his professor-father from a sophisticated childhood in Europe with his runaway mother and her lover. He discovers a quixotic passion for an absent professor's young wife. No Brahmin ban, but his mother's wisdom, restrains him from "rescuing" the girl, eloping with her, in the name of Individualism. The mother points out that such revolts, to be satisfactory, must be purely selfish...
...indifference of the authorities at Harvard toward Professor Baker and his famous drama course, which has resulted in moving the course bodily to Yale, is probably the result of an old Brahmin tradition in Back Bay that any one having to do with the theatre is just a wee bit declasse. It is all right to work around footlights in Hasty Pudding theatricals, with the proper patronesses, but beyond that one simply does not go. However, as Professor Baker can probably do his work much more efficiently at Yale, the existence of this attitude at Harvard would seem...
...Story. A Hindu of Brahmin parentage, born and brought up in a small village near Calcutta, Mukerji, in Caste (the first section), is able to give a most interesting and obviously veracious account of a certain section of Indian life-something of which even the cleverest of Occidental writers have been able to describe no more than the externals. " An intricate and age-old pattern of life, from sudden sunrise through fervid noon to the heavy fall of night and silence...
...kind of god to us," practised law, but was also a skilled musician. " During his vacations we used to go in a cart drawn by bullocks from the court of one Rajah to another, where he sang." Young Mukerji himself was initiated (at the age of 14) as a Brahmin priest and passed through the requisite two years of wandering pilgrimage, begging his way through India, seeking the knowledge of God-a pilgrimage most fascinatingly described. Later, he gave up his priesthood, to become fervently interested in the movement for Indian nationalism-and went to Japan to study textile engineering...