Brahman

Example Sentences

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Mohabir must pretend to be Brahman, the highest, priestly caste, to enter the home of Brahman villagers.

From Washington Post

“We support you in finding your own way to God, if that’s how you describe it, or Brahman, or Tao.”

From New York Times

Like Nelore cattle in South America, Brahman are well-suited for tropical and subtropical climates, but their high tolerance for heat and humidity comes at the cost of lower meat quality than other breeds.

From Salon

Harris’s mother, Shyamala Gopalan, the Brahman daughter of a diplomat from Chennai, graduated from the University of Delhi at nineteen, and, avoiding an arranged marriage, went to Berkeley to study nutrition and endocrinology.

From The New Yorker

But the bewildering variety of responses on caste identity from the population became impossible to fit neatly into colonial or Brahman theory.

From BBC