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Return of the Brahmin

Author : Ravi Shankar Etteth
Publisher : Westland
ISBN 13 : 935776139X
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (577 download)

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Download or read book Return of the Brahmin written by Ravi Shankar Etteth and published by Westland. This book was released on 2024-03-04 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: About the Book A FAST-MOVING SEQUEL TO THE BRAHMIN, SET IN THE IMMEDIATE AFTERMATH OF EMPEROR ASHOKA’S DEVASTATION OF KALINGA After thwarting the malicious Kalingan general Lord Suma and becoming the emperor of Magadha, Ashoka is now faced with a new threat—a faceless foe whose only aim is to topple his empire. His brutal killings of Magadhan officials, kidnappings of royal prisoners and infiltrating of the royal palace of Tamralipti weave a mesh of hatred, intrigue and menace. No one knows who he is, yet he breathes such terror into his network of followers that even a dying man fears uttering his name. He calls himself the Khandapati. There’s only one man in the empire that Ashoka can turn to. Spurred on by years of friendship and sworn loyalty, the Brahmin finds himself back in the royal capital, caught in a violent conspiracy that extends beyond Magadhan boundaries. Will he be able to live up to his role as the protector of the empire or is the merciless villain more than a match for the Brahmin?

The Brahmin

Author : Ravi Shankar Etteth
Publisher : Westland
ISBN 13 : 9357761373
Total Pages : 181 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (577 download)

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Download or read book The Brahmin written by Ravi Shankar Etteth and published by Westland. This book was released on with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: About the Book A FAST-PACED THRILLER SET IN THE TIMES OF EMPEROR ASHOKA It is a time of violence as well as calm. Men of peace are spreading the message of the Buddha even as monks are being tortured in the dungeons of Pataliputra. In Magadha, all talk is about the impending war against Kalinga. While King Ashoka plots the movements of his ships and cavalry, Queen Asandhimitra broods over the growing unrest in the kingdom. There is only one man they can both trust to take them through this period of uncertainty and looming danger: the enigmatically named Brahmin, skilful spymaster and custodian of Magadha’s best-kept secrets. Lush with historical detail and unforgettable characters, The Brahmin is an intricately plotted novel that seeks to recreate a near-mythical period in India’s past.

Being Brahmin, Being Modern

Author : Ramesh Bairy
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136198199
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (361 download)

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Download or read book Being Brahmin, Being Modern written by Ramesh Bairy and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-01-11 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is clearly an academic and political obsession with the ‘idea’ of the Brahmin. There is also, simultaneously, a near-complete absence of engagement with the Brahmin as an embodied person or community. This book addresses this intriguing paradox by making available a sociological description of the Brahmins in today’s Karnataka. It pursues three distinct, yet enmeshed, registers of inquiry – the persona of the ‘Brahmin’ embodied in the agency of the individual Brahmin; the organised complexes of action such as the caste association and the public culture of print; and finally, taking off from a longer (yet, modern and contemporary) history of non-Brahminical othering of the Brahmin. It argues that we tend to understand the contemporaneity of caste almost exclusively within the twin registers of legitimation–contestation and dominance–resistance. While these facets continue to be salient, there is also a need to push out into hitherto neglected dimensions of caste. The book focuses attention on the many lives of modern caste — its secularisation, the subject positions that it offers, the equivocations by which persons and communities become ‘subjects’ of caste, their differential investments in the caste-self.

The Last Brahmin

Author : Luke A. Nichter
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300217803
Total Pages : 553 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book The Last Brahmin written by Luke A. Nichter and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2020-09-22 with total page 553 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first biography of a man who was at the center of American foreign policy for a generation Few have ever enjoyed the degree of foreign-policy influence and versatility that Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. did—in the postwar era, perhaps only George Marshall, Henry Kissinger, and James Baker. Lodge, however, had the distinction of wielding that influence under presidents of both parties. For three decades, he was at the center of American foreign policy, serving as advisor to five presidents, from Dwight Eisenhower to Gerald Ford, and as ambassador to the United Nations, Vietnam, West Germany, and the Vatican. Lodge’s political influence was immense. He was the first person, in 1943, to see Eisenhower as a potential president; he entered Eisenhower in the 1952 New Hampshire primary without the candidate’s knowledge, crafted his political positions, and managed his campaign. As UN ambassador in the 1950s, Lodge was effectively a second secretary of state. In the 1960s, he was called twice, by John F. Kennedy and by Lyndon Johnson, to serve in the toughest position in the State Department’s portfolio, as ambassador to Vietnam. In the 1970s, he paved the way for permanent American ties with the Holy See. Over his career, beginning with his arrival in the U.S. Senate at age thirty-four in 1937, when there were just seventeen Republican senators, he did more than anyone else to transform the Republican Party from a regional, isolationist party into the nation’s dominant force in foreign policy, a position it held from Eisenhower’s time until the twenty-first century. In this book, historian Luke A. Nichter gives us a compelling narrative of Lodge’s extraordinary and consequential life. Lodge was among the last of the well‑heeled Eastern Establishment Republicans who put duty over partisanship and saw themselves as the hereditary captains of the American state. Unlike many who reach his position, Lodge took his secrets to the grave—including some that, revealed here for the first time, will force historians to rethink their understanding of America’s involvement in the Vietnam War.

The Tiger and the Brahmin

Author : Brian Gleeson
Publisher : ABDO
ISBN 13 : 9781596793477
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (934 download)

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Download or read book The Tiger and the Brahmin written by Brian Gleeson and published by ABDO. This book was released on 2005-09 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Brahmin deceived by a hungry tiger is saved by a lowly jackal and encounters a lesson he has never found in his holy books.

The Twice-Born

Author : Aatish Taseer
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 0374715750
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (747 download)

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Download or read book The Twice-Born written by Aatish Taseer and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2019-03-05 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Twice-Born, Aatish Taseer embarks on a journey of self-discovery in an intoxicating, unsettling personal reckoning with modern India, where ancient customs collide with the contemporary politics of revivalism and revenge When Aatish Taseer first came to Benares, the spiritual capital of Hinduism, he was eighteen, the Westernized child of an Indian journalist and a Pakistani politician, raised among the intellectual and cultural elite of New Delhi. Nearly two decades later, Taseer leaves his life in Manhattan to go in search of the Brahmins, wanting to understand his own estrangement from India through their ties to tradition. Known as the twice-born—first into the flesh, and again when initiated into their vocation—the Brahmins are a caste devoted to sacred learning. But what Taseer finds in Benares, the holy city of death also known as Varanasi, is a window on an India as internally fractured as his own continent-bridging identity. At every turn, the seductive, homogenizing force of modernity collides with the insistent presence of the past. In a globalized world, to be modern is to renounce India—and yet the tide of nationalism is rising, heralded by cries of “Victory to Mother India!” and an outbreak of anti-Muslim violence. From the narrow streets of the temple town to a Modi rally in Delhi, among the blossoming cotton trees and the bathers and burning corpses of the Ganges, Taseer struggles to reconcile magic with reason, faith in tradition with hope for the future and the brutalities of the caste system, all the while challenging his own myths about himself, his past, and his countries old and new.

Dreaming the Great Brahmin

Author : Kurtis R. Schaeffer
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195346637
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)

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Download or read book Dreaming the Great Brahmin written by Kurtis R. Schaeffer and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2005-06-02 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dreaming the Great Brahmin explores the creation and recreation of Buddhist saints through narratives, poetry, art, ritual, and even dream visions. The first comprehensive cultural and literary history of the well-known Indian Buddhist poet saint Saraha, known as the Great Brahmin, this book argues that we should view Saraha not as the founder of a tradition, but rather as its product. Kurtis Schaeffer shows how images, tales, and teachings of Saraha were transmitted, transformed, and created by members of diverse Buddhist traditions in Tibet, India, Nepal, and Mongolia. The result is that there is not one Great Brahmin, but many. More broadly, Schaeffer argues that the immense importance of saints for Buddhism is best understood by looking at the creative adaptations of such figures that perpetuated their fame, for it is there that these saints come to life.

I Am Brahman

Author : Maurice Anslow
Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1846943663
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (469 download)

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Download or read book I Am Brahman written by Maurice Anslow and published by John Hunt Publishing. This book was released on 2010 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I am Brahman is an inspired quest into the heart of the non-dual reality. This deeply personal journey discovers the essentials in religion, science and art which all point to the Advaitin truth that consciousness itself is the basis of all existence. This short but visceral journey includes mystical experiences in India and goes deeper than ever before to describe what it is like to experience Brahman - the great Oneness of which we are a part. Rather than just another descriptive book about non-duality I am Brahman takes wings and carries the reader from the banks of the Ganges into the poetry of the soul. Here is what science has been looking for and the theology to unite all faiths. Maurice Anslow's book pulls together the searchings of a lifetime and deserves to become a modern spiritual classic.

Tamil Brahmans

Author : C. J. Fuller
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022615274X
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (261 download)

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Download or read book Tamil Brahmans written by C. J. Fuller and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2014-10-03 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Tamil Brahmans were a traditional, mainly rural, high-caste elite who have been transformed into a modern, urban, middle-class community since the late nineteenth century. Many Tamil Brahmans today are in professional and managerial occupations, such as engineering and information technology; most of them live in Chennai and other Tamilnadu towns, but others have migrated to the rest of India and overseas. This book, which is mainly based on the authors ethnographic research, describes and analyses this transformation. It is also a study of how and why the Tamil Brahmans privileged status within a hierarchical society has been perpetuated in the face of both a strong anti-Brahman movement in Tamilnadu, and a series of wider social, cultural, economic, political, and ideological changes that might have been expected to undermine their position completely. The major topics discussed include Brahman rural society, urban migration and urban ways of life, education and employment, the position of women, and religion and culture. The Tamil Brahmans class position, including the internal division into the upper- and lower-middle classes, and the process of class reproduction, are examined closely to analyze the congruence between Tamil Brahmanhood and middle classness, which as comparison with other Brahman and non-Brahman groups shows is highly unusual in contemporary India."

Aryans, Jews, Brahmins

Author : Dorothy M. Figueira
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 0791487830
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (914 download)

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Download or read book Aryans, Jews, Brahmins written by Dorothy M. Figueira and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Aryans, Jews, Brahmins, Dorothy M. Figueira provides a fascinating account of the construction of the Aryan myth and its uses in both India and Europe from the Enlightenment to the twentieth century. The myth concerns a race that inhabits a utopian past and gives rise first to Brahmin Indian culture and then to European culture. In India, notions of the Aryan were used to develop a national identity under colonialism, one that allowed Indian elites to identify with their British rulers. It also allowed non-elites to set up a counter identity critical of their position in the caste system. In Europe, the Aryan myth provided certain thinkers with an origin story that could compete with the Biblical one and could be used to diminish the importance of the West's Jewish heritage. European racial hygienists made much of the myth of a pure Aryan race, and the Nazis later looked at India as a cautionary tale of what could happen if a nation did not remain "pure." As Figueira demonstrates, the history of the Aryan myth is also a history of reading, interpretation, and imaginative construction. Initially, the ideology of the Aryan was imposed upon absent or false texts. Over time, it involved strategies of constructing, evoking, or distorting the canon. Each construction of racial identity was concerned with key issues of reading: canonicity, textual accessibility, interpretive strategies of reading, and ideal readers. The book's cross-cultural investigation demonstrates how identities can be and are created from texts and illuminates an engrossing, often disturbing history that arose from these creations.

The Last Brahmin Prime Minister

Author : Saeed Naqvi
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Last Brahmin Prime Minister written by Saeed Naqvi and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chiefly on political events during P.V. Narasimha Rao's tenure as Prime Minister, 1991-1996.

Brahmahatya

Author : Rajiv Mittal
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 : 9781522019244
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (192 download)

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Download or read book Brahmahatya written by Rajiv Mittal and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2017-08-05 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A story of revenge and redemption and deeds shaped by forces that humans believe they have defined through mythology and scriptures but still struggle to understand.A woman employee of a retirement home is shocked to discover that a new resident is in fact the son impersonating his father. The son is seeking revenge. She, by her past actions, is unwittingly complicit in his being there and now tries to thwart his peculiar plans. A senile woman-resident and an enigmatic founder offer him sage advice. The samudra manthan (a major episode in Hindu mythology), a slightly dim secretary and a sinister boss play their part in ensuring justice is finally served but in an unexpected manner.The novel quotes frequently from the ancient Hindu scriptures and stories that the protagonists use to justify their actions. The treatment of the elderly in society is a major theme. 2017 SPR (Self-Publishing Review) Book Awards FINALIST

Beef, Brahmins, and Broken Men

Author : B. R. Ambedkar
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231551517
Total Pages : 477 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book Beef, Brahmins, and Broken Men written by B. R. Ambedkar and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2020-04-07 with total page 477 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of twentieth-century India’s great polymaths, statesmen, and militant philosophers of equality, B. R. Ambedkar spent his life battling Untouchability and instigating the end of the caste system. In his 1948 book The Untouchables, he sought to trace the origin of the Dalit caste. Beef, Brahmins, and Broken Men is an annotated selection from this work, just as relevant now, when the oppression of and discrimination against Dalits remains pervasive. Ambedkar offers a deductive, and at times a speculative, history to propose a genealogy of Untouchability. He contends that modern-day Dalits are descendants of those Buddhists who were fenced out of caste society and rendered Untouchable by a resurgent Brahminism since the fourth century BCE. The Brahmins, whose Vedic cult originally involved the sacrifice of cows, adapted Buddhist ahimsa and vegetarianism to stigmatize outcaste Buddhists who were consumers of beef. The outcastes were soon relegated to the lowliest of occupations and prohibited from participation in civic life. To unearth this lost history, Ambedkar undertakes a forensic examination of a wide range of Brahminic literature. Heavily annotated with an emphasis on putting Ambedkar and recent scholarship into conversation, Beef, Brahmins, and Broken Men assumes urgency as India witnesses unprecedented violence against Dalits and Muslims in the name of cow protection.

Business Brahmins

Author : Harald Tambs-Lyche
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9788173049026
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (49 download)

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Download or read book Business Brahmins written by Harald Tambs-Lyche and published by . This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Village studies have dominated anthropological writing on India for a long time, though more recently, much has been written on the big cities. This study is original in focusing on a small-town bourgeoisie. Udupi, in South Kanara (north of Mangalore), was just a famous pilgrimage centre, then an administrative unit, until the Gauda Saraswat Brahmins arrived there in the 1890s. They were instrumental in creating a flourishing market and town, and their businesses still form the core of the local economy. Written like a piece of local history, this book tells the story of the town from the perspective of these 'Business Brahmins', but it also presents an analysis of kinship, religion and community in a Brahmin caste which, in some ways, does not correspond to the received ideas of Brahmin orthodoxy. As Konkani speakers from Goa, they constitute an ethnic minority as well as the main part of the local bourgeoisie. This blend of caste, class and ethnicity nevertheless merges into a strong and integrated identity, while its various aspects lead the author to take a critical attitude to those who would reduce the complexity of social stratification in India to a single model of the 'caste system'. Udupi is a small town and easily identified, so no attempt has been made to mask the main actors by using fictitious names. The author feels that any criticism that may emerge of them is amply compensated for by documenting their important role in building and developing the lively urban community that Udupi is today.

Guruji

Author : Sunil Reddy
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1462009204
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book Guruji written by Sunil Reddy and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2011-07 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1991, author Sunil Reddy was a college student in Hyderabad when he sought out Guruji Verahur V. Srinivasan, a retired deputy inspector general of police who was a Yogi and a God-realized saint. Reddy wanted to learn the art of meditation from this man who was a prodigy in mastering different spiritual paths. They connected, and for the next four years, the two met weekly. Guruji: Teachings of a Hindu Saint recounts those meetings and the lessons learned. Reddy presents this collection of spiritual practices and techniques gleaned from a master and designed to help guide a true practitioner. He narrates Guruji's visions and experiences with other masters, details the stages of spiritual progress, addresses distractions and detractions, repeatedly shows the qualities of true practice, and offers guideposts for assessment. Providing an in-depth look at many concepts central to the practice of Hinduism, Guruji: Teachings of a Hindu Saint guides disciples and seekers in their quest for spiritual enlightenment.

India Unbound

Author : Gurcharan Das
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0385720742
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (857 download)

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Download or read book India Unbound written by Gurcharan Das and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2002-04-09 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: India today is a vibrant free-market democracy, a nation well on its way to overcoming decades of widespread poverty. The nation’s rise is one of the great international stories of the late twentieth century, and in India Unbound the acclaimed columnist Gurcharan Das offers a sweeping economic history of India from independence to the new millennium. Das shows how India’s policies after 1947 condemned the nation to a hobbled economy until 1991, when the government instituted sweeping reforms that paved the way for extraordinary growth. Das traces these developments and tells the stories of the major players from Nehru through today. As the former CEO of Proctor & Gamble India, Das offers a unique insider’s perspective and he deftly interweaves memoir with history, creating a book that is at once vigorously analytical and vividly written. Impassioned, erudite, and eminently readable, India Unbound is a must for anyone interested in the global economy and its future.

Brahmin Mohalla

Author : Saleem Ayyanath
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (132 download)

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Download or read book Brahmin Mohalla written by Saleem Ayyanath and published by . This book was released on 2021-03-20 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brahmin Mohalla (Novel)By Saleem AyyanathSynopsisThe Brahmin Mohallah is a delicacy cooked with utter care and precision infusing the rich and subtle flavors of Indian cultures and idealisms. It was brewed and boiled over a span of many years of persistent care and dedication that makes it a delightful and savory meal. The hungry readers will not be disappointed, their longing palettes will be satiated. The story begins from one of Kerala's villages, Chamakadavu where the protagonist of the story Shameem Ahmed is arrested on grounds of parliament attack and accused of the murder of his co-worker, Shirley. The plot then travels from Kerala to North India, to the town of Shyamli and to its rawest of the raw gullies and the Brahmin Mohallah where most of the story unravels.Shameem used to work as a social studies teacher in a Hindu management school which is where he gains the acquaintance of the Malayali teacher, Shirley who is married and the mother of her four-year-old daughter. A tumultuous fatal attraction develops between Shameem and Shirley as the story unfolds itself. Their affair is depicted on a note of temptations.The author has taken his in-depth knowledge and keenness on Indian history to highlight the various issues that India faces in the modern times of this century. He explains the intricacies involved in Indian diversity.The story also magnifies the demolition of the iconic landmark of India, the Babri Masjid and the breakout of riots and unrest that followed. The methodology of narration gives the reader a wide view of how the entirety of India struggled to cope up with the ruination of a worship place. The author also sheds light on the prejudice and marginalization the minority community is subjected to since post-independence. The Muslim community is threatened by the majority and lives in constant fear of atrocities against them. The recrudescence of communal riots and the holes dug in the heart of India are brought to the readers' thoughts.The unjust and discriminated school management systems are also pinpointed. The corrupted manifestations and the existent inequalities well-rounded criticism from the author.A very prominent character in the novel is Krishnapriya, Shameem's first love, and heartbreak. There are many flashbacks in the plot that takes us back to Chamkadavu and the tyrannous and undying pure love that bloomed in the blissful village. Their long-lost love stands as a mark of sacrifice. The fast forward to the present times shows how Krishnapriya, who works as a journalist at one of the news channels helps Shameem Ahmed get out of jail.The story is an easy but thoughtful read. It makes the reader think as the plot thickens and it has managed to capture the essence of a thrilling novel. It takes twists and turns as it unravels, but in an interesting way. The book is an embodiment of dedication and it truly shows. The Brahmin Mohallah is a modern novel capturing all the right things that it promises in the most impeccable way possible.