08-13-2008, 06:22 AM
<!--QuoteBegin-vishwas+Aug 12 2008, 10:28 PM-->QUOTE(vishwas @ Aug 12 2008, 10:28 PM)<!--QuoteEBegin--><!--QuoteBegin--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->If they had handed out sacred thread to 25% of the tamil population
( tamil elites ), there would have been no dravidianist movement<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->That is a very simplistic way of looking at the world.
IMO, much of the dravidianist movement came up because of the apparent concentration of brahmins in the government services.
Before the British era, Brahmins were just as dirt-poor as everyone else, and living on charity given by others. Once the footprint of the state grew much larger than it was in pre-British times, Brahmins living in urban areas took to education and the secular services, and were seen by others as cornering the benefits of proximity to power. I suspect all this has a history of no more than 150-200 years.
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In maharashtra, the father of Bal Thakeray started an anti-brahmin movement due to brahmin dominance in jobs
However in maharashtra, anti-brahminism did not extend to anti-hinduism as in tamil nadu, because 25% of the maharashtra population has the thread
( tamil elites ), there would have been no dravidianist movement<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->That is a very simplistic way of looking at the world.
IMO, much of the dravidianist movement came up because of the apparent concentration of brahmins in the government services.
Before the British era, Brahmins were just as dirt-poor as everyone else, and living on charity given by others. Once the footprint of the state grew much larger than it was in pre-British times, Brahmins living in urban areas took to education and the secular services, and were seen by others as cornering the benefits of proximity to power. I suspect all this has a history of no more than 150-200 years.
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In maharashtra, the father of Bal Thakeray started an anti-brahmin movement due to brahmin dominance in jobs
However in maharashtra, anti-brahminism did not extend to anti-hinduism as in tamil nadu, because 25% of the maharashtra population has the thread