Brahmin
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The portfolio, which was known as Markel Ventures until last year, includes Lansing, a building-products distributor; Brahmin, a maker of high-end handbags; and Eagle, a Virginia home builder.
From Barron's ● May 8, 2026
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 shrine's managing board mirrors this sense of respectful co-existence - while two of its trustees are Muslims, its hereditary custodians are from a Hindu Brahmin family.
From BBC ● Jan. 28, 2024
In his 2021 book Woke Inc., he wrote about his family’s position as Brahmin, often considered the highest of Hindu castes.
From Slate ● Nov. 9, 2023
He beckoned the servant who was last in the procession, and asked him to announce to his mistress that a young Brahmin desired to speak to her.
From "Siddhartha" by Hermann Hesse
Like much of Boston, it goes back to the Brahmins, the elite caste of the city, among whom, according to the doggerel, “The Lowells talk only to Cabots, and the Cabots talk only to God.”
From Barron's ● May 1, 2026
Just wait until everyone finds out about the Kashmiri Brahmins!
From Slate ● Jan. 20, 2025
The census showed, for instance, that traditionally privileged groups such as Brahmins were overrepresented in government jobs compared with their population, whereas some historically disadvantaged castes such as the Mushawars were underrepresented.
From Science Magazine ● Mar. 22, 2024
Many Brahmins do not eat meat in accordance with rigid caste rules.
From BBC ● Jan. 12, 2024
Twenty percent of Kerala’s population were Syrian Christians, who believed that they were descendants of the one hundred Brahmins whom St. Thomas the Apostle converted to Christianity when he traveled East after the Resurrection.
From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy
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Siddhartha
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Chapters 3–4
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History of India - Middle School and High School
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