The domination of Brahmin and the upper caste scientists have given a Brahmanical identity to science in India. They have been perceived to be the natural inheritors of scientific practice, an assertion reaffirmed by scientists and researchers during my fieldwork in Bangalore, India.
Even after the introduction of various inclusive policies such as reservations for marginalised groups in educational institutions, there is a stark absence of such groups in India’s leading scientific research institutions. Available data show few scientists from the Dalit and other marginalised sections in most of the leading Indian scientific and technical educational institutions. This absence led me to undertake ethnographic fieldwork at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), one of Asia’s leading scientific research institutions.
Eating and learning
Most of the scientists who work at IISc obtained their PhDs or postdoctoral training from leading American or British universities. Official data clearly show that the demography of IISc has changed little. It is still demographically and culturally dominated by Brahmin and upper caste scientists. Available data from other leading scientific and technical institutions such as IITs also show the absence of Dalits and OBC scientists.
The entry of non-Brahmin scientists has not changed this image. Many virtues of Brahmin culture have been normalised in the scientific institutional settings. The domination of vegetarianism in India cannot be merely seen as food preference and choice as reports show that there are cases of discrimination on what one eats and cases reported on the existence of separate wash basins and entrances for vegetarians and non-vegetarians for example, as mentioned previously, in IIT Madras.
The majority of the Brahmin scientists I spoke to at IISc were vegetarian. IISc has three major student dining halls (Mess), called A, B, and C: A mess is for pure-vegetarian food, B mess is for north Indian vegetarian and non-vegetarian food and C mess is for south Indian vegetarian and non-vegetarian food. Even though Brahmins and other upper caste students and researchers ate at the B, and C mess, majority of the Dalits and non-Brahmins ate either at the B or at the C mess.
Some Brahmin scientists I spoke to informed me that they had tried non-vegetarian food when they were in Western universities. Food becomes a way of preserving their cultural and caste memory. Though these scientists continue to be vegetarians, they did not associate their food habits with their caste backgrounds. Instead, they justified vegetarian food habits as scientific.
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Caste linking science and passion
Due to their early entry into the Western education and their knowledge of English, it was the upper castes and Brahmins who benefitted, reshaped and negotiated these new forms of knowledge. They redefined the image of science as Brahmin and Bhadralok (educated upper caste Bengali) knowledge, which in turn was reaffirmed as the biography of science in India.
This norm is visible from Sudarshan (names used are anonymised for ethical reasons), a Tamil Brahmin scientist who works in the field of Aeronautics, when stating that the Brahmins are ‘passionate’ about learning, and others are interested only in ‘money making’.
Speaking with Sudarshan at his office, I realised how the perception of science being a Brahmin profession was entrenched. I asked him why there were no non-Brahmin scientists or only few non-Brahmin scientists in the institutes of higher scientific learning such as IISc. He responded,
These guys are not interested to ‘waste’ time like us. They think it is better to go for a technical or business education, so that they would get immediate benefit. Science and research will not have an immediate effect. It takes time to get benefits. The most important thing one ought to have while pursuing research is ‘patience’, which we don’t find among these groups. . .
Sudarshan did not think that he was offending anyone, but shared a common belief among many scientists that Brahmins are meant to do science and research, and that they are ready to sacrifice for knowledge.
Sudarshan was not the only scientist who argued in this way. Many scientists with whom I interacted thought that learning and science was part of the Brahmin culture. Sudarshan’s views reaffirm the alleged naturalness of Brahmins’ intellectual superiority.
When scientists like Sudarshan narrate their family background, they wish to convey that despite their poverty, they could study and become scientists as their family ‘valued’ education, and for them it is ‘natural’ that their family valued education.
This tendency to focus on their deprivation while ignoring the privileges of their Brahmin origin is observable throughout the personal writings and interviews with the Brahmin scientists. This acceptance and negotiation made Brahmins the ‘inheritors’ of knowledge. It is this image which led Jagadesan, a Dalit scientist to tell me over coffee that IISc means Iyer Iyengar Science Campus (Iyers and Iyengars are Brahmins from the state of Tamil Nadu and settled in different parts of South India).
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Cultural capital and access
Being Brahmins who had educated family members, it was not just passion, but also their cultural capital that helped them in doing science.
As Satish Deshpande observed, ‘Having encashed its traditional caste-capital networks and converted it into modern forms of capital like property, higher educational credentials and strongholds in lucrative professions, this section believes itself to be “caste-less” today’. This disavowal and denial of caste in their everyday life by claiming a liberal identity was common among the scientists of IISc. They would describe themselves as liberal, but when it comes to questions of reservation, they would be very sceptical. They believed, as Sudarshan said, in order to do science, one needs to have ‘passion’, and ‘sacrificial mentality’. They believed that reservation may affect the quality of research, and reservation will produce scientists who are not passionate about science and research.
The public should be informed regularly regarding the number of Dalit, ST and the OBC scientists that they appoint, and various strategies that they employ to make the scientific and technical education more inclusive. If this debate around the underrepresentation of scientists does not happen, the elite institutes such as IISc and IITs will remain ivory towers and will not be accountable to the public.
This is an edited excerpt from “Brahmins as scientists and science as Brahmins’ calling” in Public Understanding of Science. It has been published here with permission from Sage Publications.
The author is an anthropologist of science, teaches at the Department of Sociology, Jesus and Mary College, University of Delhi. Views are personal.
Dont demonize any section of society; that too on such flimsy grounds
If equal opportunity is not provided to any section of society, you SHOULD write about it
But this is just a waste of time
You should only appreciate the fact that the institution caters to the food requirements of all students, making it conducive for research
I would expect this from a Republic TV or TIMES NOW
क्या मूर्खता है ,तुम्हारा लेख ब्राह्मण क्या खाता है,क्या पीता है इस पर केन्द्रित है ,यदि कोई मनुष्य जिस क्षेत्र में स्वयं को उन्नत करना चाहेगा वह उसी क्षेत्र में उनात हो जाएगा, लेकिन तुम्हारा ध्यान ब्राह्मणों की अनावश्यक आलोचना पर ही रहता है,
जहाँ देखो वही ये पढ़ने और सुनने में आता है जातिवाद ना करो लेकिन आप ब्राह्मणों की जीवन के प्रति सकरात्मकता को तोड़ मरोड़ कर नकारात्मकता में प्रदर्शित करना चाहते हो, बहुत ही निंदनीय है तुम्हारा लेख
यह रिपोर्ट पूरी तरह से प्रायोजित है
Reminds of Hitler and his Nazi era, blame Jews for all your problems. Same way this new type of Nazism is prevalent now in India, blame Brahmins for all your problems.
लेकिन जब शाकाहारी ,साम्यवाद या अंग्रेज़ो की बात आती है। तो तुम्हारे लिए हिटलर सही हो जाता है। और जब बात मुस्लिमो की आती है । तो यहूदी सही हो जाते है।जर्मन में जर्मनी लोगो को सम्मान नहीं दिया जाता था ।इसलिए हिटलर ने ऐसा किया।भारत में दलितों के साथ आज यही हो रहा है
Science advanced more in India during the reign of Buddhist kings/period and than in reign of Hindu kings/period. So it is important to have seculaism and scientfic temper as established by first PM of India Pandit Nehru . For last six years RSS/BJP Modi’s Hindutva govt is diverting money from real science to cow science.
So now Brahmins working hard and in a spirit of sacrifice is a problem? Are these not qualities we respect around the world? Do we even want cricket players in IPL who don’t work hard and in a sport of Tyaga or Sacrifice? Nothing that is worth anything in life is attained without sacrifice. So the author believes that hard work and sacrifice demonstrated by Brahmins should be vilified and monitored? This is Nazi mentality of blaming and projecting ones on faults on others? The author is a militant Christian fundamentalist trained to hate Brahmins – as they safeguard India’s culture. And… the whole world is turning vegetarian because of health, science and climate change! What is the authors problem if Brahmins choose to be veneration and will not impose this on others ?
Who told you all these nonsense that during Buddhists era Science and literature flourished more? Alberuni in his account has given a full chapter dedicating to the Acheivements of Hindu Science and literature on the other hand there is a smallmention of Buddhist contribution. Ayurveda, Astronomy, mathematics , Aryabhatta, Barahamihira, Rishi Kanad have you ever heard their name?
BJP Govt has seen very few terms in power. It was congress all through. Why there was nil scientific temperament at that time?
Were you high or wat?
First of all, IISc has 4 mess and so stop creating a mess. How can you say this Brahmin thing? How did you get this data? ?? Come to IISc, every student in IISc is working hard and here you are defaming every student. Please stop posting shitty things.
Another divisive article by the print team. I saw that the top office bearers of Editors Guild of India are: SHEKHAR GUPTA, a bania, is president. A K BHATTACHARYA, a brahmin, is secretary, and Sheela Bhatt, a brahmin, is treasurer. Why? Could they not find a dalit or OBC for the top office bearers?
I completely agree with this concept. But, othe cates had been marginalised and deprived from higher education. And , more in than 90 % of uppercastss people are holding the major position and majority of them will be in the selection pannel as well. So, chances are there that lower cast people may not get chance easily.
Ambedkar was the father of bharamans who killed this shit ideology
Not father actually , he married a brahmin girl ,son in law
What a joke by The Print it should be blocked it only target a community. Those working in IISC are very hard working even Dr. APJ abdul kalam was also a great sceintist he was not from a brahmin community.Please dont spread rumours in between innocent people of India. In india education is open for everyone.
Well said
What a shit!! Who said brahmins are upper caste. A worst theory which has been flowing in India since old ages. Let’s pick up a knife or machine gun, then it is known who is upper caste. Survival of the fittest is the best theory. They had got up with some survival instincts such as studying while others had some other instincts. That’s it and they cannot be treated as upper caste now-a-days. A man with money and power are now be treated as upper caste not a scientist. Education is waste of time and money for the most!! Because no education system teaches good habits, manners, humanity, accountability. Without being a human with good habits then what’s gonna do with sciences. No schools and colleges teaches good things, they r responsible only for maths and science. College teaches the most students to form a gang, group according to caste, religion, language, recommendations for jobs, or any schemes which deserves for some other persons. Can possibly do anything to lead ur life without caring about others and society etc… Then why do we need rules and regulations. Instead allow others to do whatever they can so that world would become a graveyard.
The print, everyone can see your hidden agenda. Stop doing these nonsense and don’t ever try to twist the truth. Stop defaming Hindus.
Do you think that there is no castism in other religions. Ask a Muslim or Christian friend they would enlighten you. There are stark differenciation between Ashrafs, Azlafs and Azral. Similar trends you will find in Christianity also in India and surrounding nations.
My one friend is Pathan,he derides julahas more than a modern Brahmin derides shudra.
Your imagination is blimited, is my reply.
Did you research and found majority of brahmins are vegetarians.
I stopped reading your article immediately as I understood, you are having some personal problem with .
Your imagination is blimited, is my reply.
Did you research and found majority of brahmins are vegetarians.
I stopped reading your article immediately as I understood, you are having some personal problem with our country.
Dirty media is my reply. Did you research and found majority of brahmins are vegetarians.
I stopped reading your article immediately as I understood, you are having some personal problem with our country.
In a department of an engineering, I heard, no non-Brahmin could enter for decades except one particular sect of Tamil Brahmins. Thus caste was employed to work for Brahmins. Now that’s not entirely gone. There are many caste-ways that act counter to bar entry of non Brahmins to positions. This is what need to be researched. Wait two decades and see non brahmin talents.
this, is the real problem in India, they have prevented the lower cast people from studying, now they say its natural
So already some are getting brainwashed. Read this author’s name. He teaches at Jesus and Mary College, University of Delhi,where you need to be a Christian to hold and lecturer position. West is increasingly turning atheist so church is finding new newer pastures. And so called OBC and sc are their targets. Author has just given a spin suiting his agenda.
On going through the observations by author it is noticed that mention of Brahmins as special along with other Upper Casts shows that readers should automatically be diverted to particular angle of thinking.
How can we lodge complaints against such irresponsible article writers n publishers. Plz those who know about it plz file a complaint against this report meant to unnecessary increase tension between communities
Why tha print always publishes articles which are meant only to spread hatred among castes and communists . No sane views are given credence.If so called upper castes are dominating academics by dint of their hard work and talent , why should anyone be jealous ? May be after satisfying their long standing desire for power and money, which they got a taste of only a few decades ago ,the other castes would also think of devoting life for reseaech. Reserving seats on caste basis only will not be wise.The penchat for research cannot be inculcated by harbouring Debby ans resorting to reservation.
Nobody stopped you from making your own secret societies and make NMIT Nair Menon Institute of science, RGIT Reddy Goudas Institute of science, MPIT Mudaliar Pillai Institute of science, KIIS Kuruba Idigas institute of Science, NEIT Nadar Ezhavas Institute of science. Why blame Iyers and Iyengars ?
By way of corollary we the muslims in kashmir have the same ” Barahamin” or priestly class called Peers. They have the same mind set and always used to discourage others in pursuing the higher echelons of education. But they were effectively wiped out as a dominant class as muslims have no caste system. Regarding their being a majority in scientific fields it was mainly due to their administrative connections. These people were like the pandits in Kashmir always associated with rulers. Now what I have observed in kashmir that these priestly classes always switch their loyalties to be in power. It is a stark reality that these priestly classes are at the fore front of exploiting religion and instigating other people to to do jihad. Main purpose of these people is that they should yield pen themselves for their own development and others should hold guns for their self destruction. They the hindu and muslim.preists are exact replicas of each other.
There is a truth in Your observation.
These brahmins are responsible for suppression of Hindhu communities from time immomorial.
Everyone who gets the exposure
they can be genious.
For power and money these BRAHMINS will stoop toany level.
Basically they are born with a hate mongering gene.
Please provide evidence that there is such a thing as hate mongering gene and brahimins have it? Otherwise you would have only proved your own intollerence and hatered being projected on them
The way you quote regarding the efficiency of being a scientist of Brahmins, Dalits come from a society where it us hard to meet both ends ,
It is only due to reservation that their first generation is still in a position to be self dependent, where as allother liabilities are still outstanding
It is hard for them to wait for a long time for result
Today if there is nothing to eat, whi will wait for tommorow?
There is no back for them who will support them in the case of any need.
There us no dearth of knowledge, calibre or anything else but of finance only
If Brahmin was having such calibre, why there is no invention which Brahmin did?
Why all the inventions had been done by the people of the world
Mrs Reny Thomas.. what a shame on you..!!!! now, shall i say that, you being a christian, you are trying to divide hindus in the name of caste?. To print media : seriously?
How this brahmin tribe from India could claim they are good in science, I wonder. By their presence in India for the last 3000 years, what is their contribution? nothing! Pl highlight one discovery or invention that influenced Indian society by them. They made the country ultra poor by the caste filth. Nothing else!
Nicholas. Your racist and hateful rant speaks for itself. Many Indians from Sri CV Raman (Brahmin) and Nobel Winner in Physics inventor of Rama effect to ApJ Abdul Kalam Muslim have contributed to science. The very Humber system you use is called Hindu Numbering system. Stop being so blind with hatred. It causes cancer and health issues.
As these people sitting in these places and not allow other caste people to join them, even if they try they LL be treated as second class people though they do good. What science they have done so far..? Do you have anything like machines, electronic goods, or anything in your home or around you that our Indian so called Brahmin scientists have developed before others. They discovered this caste as they are incompetent to compete with other people. without with this caste virtues, They are unfit to do any research. They only fit to stay in temples and collect money saying that Pooja, this Pooja etc without any efforts and to preach superstition among people. They are totally unfit and incompetent without their caste identity. Everywhere they go first try to say that they are brahmins and superior than everyone else.
All science and its by products are based on numbers.Also, Ayurveda and Siddha medicine is sceince of the lviing body. EVery thing else, including western inventions are based on Hindu numeral systems. What other things need to be proved to you?
Why do the Left parties have so many Brahmin leaders? Right from Namboodripad to Jyoti Basu to Karat and Yechury. Especially since they believe in equality of opportunity.
Also, last I checked, hardly any Dalits make it big in the media which is ruled by the Sardesais , the Ghosh family, the Dutt’s and the Razdans – all Brahmins.
So would be nice to take a look at yourselves before pointing a finger at others.
Narinder Singh kapney is not bramin who invented fibre optics.
Disgraceful article… Personal vie s and biases expressed as scientific research. These people have vested interests at should be stopped from spreading hate.
Who has stoped SC / OBC from pursuing science in 2020? Well placed non brahmins should show some kindness towards them since enough reservation has been bestowed on them by now. I dont intend to classify amoung we Indians. Writer has lost his power of observation and no more artical to write so this pig is dominating brahmins. Grow up.
Jealous indian christian whining over achievements of brahmins on science and technology, and wondering why they could just do poojas and sit in temples instead .. Thats the nutshell of this writeup..
Dr. B R Ambedkar was not a brahmin, but his thirst of knowledge made him a great thinker and social reformer. I feel the social entertainment and personal interest shapes the goal of a person irrespective of cast.
If it’s your personal view why are you publishing it, to earn money right.I think you are still uneducated, learning instinct comes in a child when their parents are educated not when they are brahmin, how come a child learn if he sees his or her family struggling. Yes
reservation should be banned but all SC/ST must be given a chance atleast one member from each family
Remove untouchability which is used for discrimination, injustice, hatred and everything Hindu does including denial of education against the underdogs.
End caste can you? Brahmans will be the first to stoutly oppose demolition of caste which is their goldmine. Reservation brings in its train stigma. But Brahman relishes his caste whereas a dalit is ashamed.
Where is untouchability? Not practiced by Brahmins at least now. It is practiced by powerful non-brahmins may be. How does anyone end caste. By just one declaration? Fine. Let it be done that way if it can be done. You are already getting reservvations which has already uplifted you and will uplift others also in future. What else do you want? If a small minority is not ending casteist practices, ignore them. How will their behaviour even affect you when you are so huge in numbers?
A comedian and pseudo academician. Such people and the Print as a channel only forment social trouble and conflict in India.
Yes you are right
The Print has got an agenda of ” Breaking India” . Almost all articles suggest that Print is working on it very Honestly. But here is your bad luck; India has got other medium too to get educated with the things. So come on and show some true journalism instead such type of cheap articles.
Now there agenda is to Target the successful scientific advancements be it in space medicine by introducing more reservations. By doing so they are intentionally hindering and subverting India’s development at a favorable speed. They are still trying to divide the Hindu society in every aspect of life by there narrow view of the society.
There is no valuable returns such the idiotical bramins iit campus.A food transfers only power for surviveness and not genius.phathetic bramins are invaders. Their birth charachter is venum .
IITs are India’s pride institutions where quality is the order, why all strive to study there. Dont degrade such an institutions like other nationalist by degrading yourself
you are free to hate anyone. But, how does it help you or anything else you are spewing venom against? If IIT campus is hopeless, why do you need to look at it at all? If brahmins are venom, just ignore them. Treat them and IIT as non existent entities. You are still getting all facilities from other sources. Then why do you invite hate inside you towards someone who does not affect your life at all?
This article needs to be reported to the authorities , this is it , height to casteist media propoganda for getting views
That’s it , I will be reporting this godorsaken piece of sh*t article to the authorities and theprint media itself for crap articles like “social media and the caste” , looking down upon scientists on their caste is hate speech imo .
Do Brahmins have two unlike others
If anybody is wondering how/why this rubbish even gets published, its because of Casteist politics. Congress survives through caste division, and their pet media companies propagate it.
I’m a non brahmin. But even I can see that missionary agenda of this writer has become very apparent here.
You say that brahmins are excelling because they have had previleges in the past, like they didn’t get to face any discrimination. Tell me one thing, even Christians in India aren’t facing any discrimination. So why aren’t they dominant in these areas.
What’s wrong with someone having a preference for separate mess because they’re vegetarian. Even Jains would prefer a pure vegetarian mess. How does it prove that there’s a caste based discrimination going on? And why do you have a problem if there are no SCs and OBCs in a vegetarian mess. Which non vegetarian would join a vegetarian mess unless money is the issue?
It’s become a fashion for Libtards like you to attack Brahmins.
Absolutely right.
Completely agree about the mess arrangement. The mess system seems to cater to all. Useless article and this is part of a book!
Really!!! Creating fear of false gods among others and feeding on their resources by sitting in temples…all they have to do is this….when you dnt spend your time fighting for livinghood like other communities it is very much likely opportunity to do something else…when all you have to do is preach and eat on other people’s hard earned money….
Seriously?? Do you think that those scientists from iisc had made people fool and ate their money?? Or do you think all Brahmins do that?? That’s a very bad way of stereotyping someone. Agreed that they are privileged and haven’t struggled like the Bahujans, but still those becoming scientists from premier institutes like IISc must have worked hard, unlike sitting in temples and eating money..
Well said sis
Well said! All these so called learned status aquired by Brahm ins is nothing but the result of generations of exploitation heaped by them on poor bahujans of this country.
What a rubbish.. unfollowing print and blocking it henceforth. Never expected journalists to be so narrow minded and limited in their thoughts. While targetting Brahmins or upper caste, you failed to mention the actual reason for their number in premier institutes, it’s not caste. It’s the hard work and dedication they give into it. Reservation is only worsening things and deteriorating the quality of services. One who is getting 98% through hard work and one who gets 50% go to the same college still youn feel there is a discrimination then i think you are right but it’s with the people of upper caste because their hard work goes in futile when someone taking education casually sits with them
Who can study hard like bramins. Those can become scientists. Not from reservations. Dr. Abdhul kalam also a scientist but he is not a bramin he brought up in a bramin family.
Policy of reservation is a loss to the poor meritorious students, especially brahmins.
Really! And what about thousands of years of Untouchabilty practiced by brahm ins?
Brahmins are universal lovers, it can be heard by his close mates, have no caste, creed, or nation particular, inclined to go anywhere and mingle with other culture, that is why prefers go to every nook and corner for opportunity. They blush in arthodoxic culture that looks different for others to understand. Nothing more than that. A brahmin never seek pride of his position like others, by caste, but at talent, now this is the time to betray all differences, and form unite of indian nation
Shame on print… Shame on Renny Thomas… You are infinitely disgusting rotten lot… You and your thoughts are nothing but frogs in the well… You think and write according to your paid and learnt instincts, which have long forgotten to see Indian society beyond your master’s eyes… All your phrased write-ups are nothing more than dog’s barking in the elephants path… We know what our culture and inheritance are capable… You bloody buggers need not teach us your shit ideologies… Go get screws tightened up… Get last you idiots
Shame on your brahminical bias which instead of repenting about 1000years of exploitation of bahujans, still continues to exploit them
If Brahmins are so dominant and suppress other castes, government should create universities exclusively for non brahmins. And isolate these universities from brahmins! That’s the only solution to end brahmin’s dominance. These universities should be heavily funded by government and private well wishers.
Already you have done that with reservation. You don’t have to create one. With 69 percent reservation and the remaining 31 percent open for everyone, you don’t have to even take a survey or research to know that brahmins canot be in majority in 99.99 percent of the institutions in India.
While I am sure that still people who are marginalised still remain the same, there is very little work that is in place to lift them. majority of the reservation is used by elite among the reserved class.
With govt institutes out of scope and minority institutions favouring their own identity, the last few options left for brahmins is these elite institutions where reservation is less and cources like CA, ICWA etc where passing needs more hardwork and patience apart from knowledge without requiring to spend like engineering or medical.
This column is completely biased and I am reading similar posts where one more so called journalist talks about similar issue.
Please look at sheer number of patshalas where brahmin students study for 7 to 12 years in vedas. Only those students join whose parents can not afford to provide children food even once a day.
If we want to bring in change, yes reservation should exist still all the families get education and empowerment. To achieve this we also should ensure that those who have availed reservation should be removed from the scope of reservation.
Let us leave few institutions of importance from reservations so that focus is only on merit so that it benefits nation.
After looking at all of these comments, I can only see the kind of closed mentality we have rooted in ourselves. Never wanting to accept the truth and always trying to live and glorify the past. Grow up. It’s not the 2nd century BCE, it’s 2020 AD.
The lower caste people aren’t as financially secure as the Brahmins who had accumulated centuries of wealth by discrimination against 80-90% of the population of India, while the lower castes are left to fend for themselves as they have to battle so many more needs and priorities before they can even think of spending their time researching, which, let’s face it, doesn’t bring in a lot of money in a country like India. Sure, they are trying, but when they try to get out, they have faced discrimination at some point or the other on the basis of caste by none other than the so-called upper castes who only live in the past. Stopping talent like this from reaching the top is precisely the reason why we are a joke in the scientific community and everywhere else in any other field.
I want to be polite here, but won’t be, so SHUT UP. Stop your deep-rooted caste bias to hamper your decision making, which will, in turn help India as a country to succeed
Dear Concerned Citizen, really you think Brahmins have ACCUMULATED wealth for Centuries. It is all Hogwash that our British Rulers perpetrated. Even today I know personally many Brahmin families who live in misery just because of discrimination. My question is this, Can I hold YOU accountable for your Father’s mistakes. If not then how can you put all the load of previous so called missendovers on the present day Brahmins. Isn’t that itself flawed.
What Rubbish !!!! Anything said without extensive research just proves your stupidity …well in India we have right to expression doesn’t mean you are allowed to speak any shit without knowing the facts !!!!
Well said! All these so called learned status aquired by Brahm ins is nothing but the result of generations of exploitation heaped by them on poor bahujans of this country.
It is ridiculous, there is no scope to exploit bahujans, they are not within reach, some may did so, blame is on brahmins. Other upper castes in south are utilized the services of dalits keeping with them and never forgotten, extended hand to uplift them from hounger and needs to their satisfaction as no govt did. Dalits are the dominant group in south than brahmins. At sacred rituals even their own offsprings and siblings are untouchables. Understand the ritual binding nature of brahmin without negative thinking. Leaving many other important issues of common good, commenting each other on caste basics is of sheer waste of time and value, every community is needed to the society, no bias on caste base is required by all
absolute lies. Brahmins did not accumulate wealth since the ancient days. That is the main problem with Brahmins. They were too stupid not to have foreseen these days. All non brahmins procured weatlh, a few brahmins only procured wealth, even a few of the SCs and STs and other religious minorities have procured wealth but majority of the Brahmins, SCs and STs did not procure wealth. You are barking at the wrong tree.
Stupid and biased article by a novice mind
What a rubbish article. Very superficial no content.