Anti Brahminism

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Guys just wanted to record the following interesting posts from Sri M Kelkar on IC.. Other admins might move the post(s) to appropriate places. I havent read it but would like to read it when I find time..

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/IndianCivili...n/message/75957

<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->ANTI - BRAHMANISM, THE NEW COMMUNALISM OF MODERN INDIA: David Frawley
http://www.hindubooks.org/david_frawley/aw...anism/page7.htm

Anti-Brahminism
Koenraad Elst
http://hamsa.org/StThomas_Chapt_4.htm#elst

http://www.geocities.com/ifihhome/articles/mj002.html
The Plight of Brahmins

By Meenakshi Jain

he tragedy of being a Tamil Brahmin
http://www.anothersubcontinent.com/forums/...topic=2088&st=0

http://www.vepachedu.org/Recommendations.html
Recommendations to Brahmana Sadassu

http://www.vepachedu.org/brahmana-tribe.ht...cited_Vedas_are
The Mouths that Recited Vedas are Grieving

http://www.chennaionline.com/colnews/newsi...DE-48F6-9\
775-125C409B40CE%7D&CATEGORYNAME=National
BSP to organise Brahmin Sammelan on Feb 20

http://www.sulekha.com/expressions/article....asp?cid=306467
Myth of Brahminical Hegemony
Moor Nam

Many Brahaman houselholds were burnt in Maharashtra after Gandhi's
assasination. The last name Godse is almost non existant today
because people had it changed.

to be continued.

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http://groups.yahoo.com/group/IndianCivili...n/message/75987

<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->--- In IndianCivilization@yahoogroups.com, "koenraad_elst"
<koenraad.elst@p...> wrote:
> --- In IndianCivilization@yahoogroups.com, "mkelkar2003"
> <smykelkar@c...> wrote:
> > An anti anti Brahman (and hence a pro Brahman) book is not a good
> idea
> > because Brahmans are the last ones to complain or rely on counter
> > propoganda to repond in kind to Dalistan.
> >
> > M. Kelkar
>
>
> Thanks already for your list of available material. It goes without
> saying that a book on anti-Brahminism should not have the same hateful
> and victimhood-cultivating tone of the typical anti-Brahmin
> pamphlets. That the undersigned busybody wants to get involved here
> is also because as a non-Brahmin he is slightly better placed than the
> Brahmins themselves who usually are too dignified to complain about
> their own plight.
>
> KE

Glad to be of help. Some more references:

Brahmin and Brahminism: A historical survey
by Raj Narain Arya
# Unknown Binding: 125 pages
# Publisher: Blumoon Books (2001)
# Language: English
# ISBN: 8187190523

True Brahminism in life and law (Vedic University series)
by M. K. Venkatesvara Aiyar
# Unknown Binding: 154 pages
# Publisher: Printed at the Madras Law Journal Press (1928)
# Language: English
# ASIN: B00088O9QA

Aryans, Jews, Brahmins: Theorizing Authority Through Myths of Identity
(Suny Series, the Margins of Literature)
by Dorothy Matilda Figueira
# Hardcover: 256 pages
# Publisher: State University of New York Press (October 1, 2002)
# Language: English
# ISBN: 0791455319

My Life With a Brahmin Family
by Lizelle Reymond
# Paperback
# Publisher: Penguin Putnam~trade
# ISBN: 0140033750

The Brahmins
by Eileen Lottman
# Publisher: Dell Publishing (March, 1984)
# ISBN: 0440102138

http://www.hindu.org/publications/ramswa...inism.html
The Colonial Genesis of Anti-Brahminism

http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Parthenon/...tharamaiah.html
HAIL BRAHMINISM

http://www.humnri.com/Humex/Submission/padma/padma2.asp
Brahmanism & Brahminism

http://hamsa.org/StThomas_Chapt_4.htm#elst
Anti-Brahminism
Koenraad Elst

http://www.hvk.org/specialrepo/mms/index.html
MANU, SANGH & I

Draft translation of Marathi Book -

Me, Manu Ani Sangh

by

RAMESH PATANGE

http://www.hinduismtoday.com/archives/19...9-12.shtml
Verdict from Belgium

http://www.ciil.org/announcement/MBE_progr...per/paper14.htm
INDIA AS A LITERARY AREA
Kikkeri Narayan

http://bharatvani.org/books/civilization/partI6.htm
"Anti-Brahminism has often become the most virulent form of castist
thinking." David Frawley

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