They wear the
Brahminical thread; they adhere to every claim of Hindu caste-law.
Alongside a photograph of the RSS chief, she put controversial remarks, saying,"In history, Mahatma Gandhi and Mahavir fought against
Brahminical caste system.
The murders of Gauri Lankesh and her rationalist colleagues allegedly by members of a
Brahminical group suspected in Gandhi's assassination confirms this narrative.
He accused the BJP-RSS combine of promoting
brahminical culture and spreading hatred against dalits, minorities and ethnic communities in the country.
The 'Indian' in his elucidation of the Anglophone novel's relationship to vernacular traditions--reduced essentially to Sanskrit--is implicitly Hindu and upper-caste, indeed,
Brahminical. For all that Rao is attuned to the dangers of the creation of a "snobbish" English elite "permanently isolated from the common man," his own sense of the demotic has manifest limitations determined by caste and class that are also reflected in the works of the writers he discusses--Markandaya, Anand, Raja Rao, and R.
It has always been the janeu-dhari (one who wears
Brahminical thread), savarnas (one of the four major Hindu classes) who are higher in numbers.
It pulled together
Brahminical parties, middle-caste leaders and Dalits.
Described in the Official Guide as containing a liquid extracted for use in
brahminical sacrifices but differentiated from the unidentified soma juice referred to in the Vedas.
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey has caused a stir in India after a picture of him with a sign saying "smash
Brahminical patriarchy" went viral, according to Reuters.
Originally named Dakshinamurthy by his parents Muthuvel and Anjugam, he later changed it to Karunanidhi as it is a pure Tamil name without any
Brahminical tinge.
They 1) respond--or write back--to
Brahminical patriarchy that has exercised control over the feminine throughout history; 2) They offer a form of counter discourse by interrogating and deconstructing gender essentialisms and hegemonic power; 3) They expose the limits and absurdities of the dominant discourse with their subversive voices, and 4) They give us a more accurate understanding of woman's realities in contemporary India.
For
Brahminical tradition mirror images are sheer illusion.