Brahmin
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A disillusioned, admittedly misanthropic Boston Brahmin, Lowell came to see himself as a scientist with the soul of a poet, or a poet with scientific instincts.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 22, 2025
The authors describe how Irawati, a Chitpavan Brahmin from a traditionally vegetarian upper-caste Hindu community, bravely ate partially raw meat offered by a tribal leader she wished to study.
From BBC • Jan. 18, 2025
Sawant, who identifies as a socialist, has acknowledged her own personal privilege, noting that she grew up in an upper-caste Hindu Brahmin household in India and witnessed caste discrimination first-hand.
From Salon • Mar. 5, 2023
In March 1857, a sepoy named Mangal Pandey, a devout Hindu from the high-ranking Brahmin caste, attacked two British officers.
From Textbooks • Dec. 14, 2022
Chacko’s hero, Comrade E. M. S. Namboodiripad, the flamboyant Brahmin high priest of Marxism in Kerala, became Chief Minister of the first ever democratically elected Communist government in the world.
From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy
Vocabulary lists containing Brahmin
Siddhartha
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Chapters 3–4
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History of India - Middle School and High School
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