Brahmin

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

Richard Henry Dana was a Boston Brahmin and a Harvard man who took to sea on an ordinary merchant ship.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 24, 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

Now he did feel it Previously, when in deepest meditation, he was still his father’s son, he was a Brahmin of high standing, a religious man.

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

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

And then in the British Raj, Brahmins were at the top, Dalits at the bottom.

From Slate ● Jul. 18, 2022

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