WHO IS A BRAHMIN 5-4-2006

Politics of identity in India by Gilles Chuyen (Manohar). This book is based mainly on interviews conducted by the author of number of brahmins at different ages and professions. They were clarified north and south, military civilian, orthodoxies and modern. The main point is on how all these brahmin groups perceive their own identity as brahmin and how they like others to perceive. There is claim for superior intellect, educational active men to dharmic practices. Conciously or not most of the brahmins interviewed equate the best perceived human behaviour with brahminic values.

By K. N. Krishnan.