The Modern Transformation of an Old Elite: The Case of the Tamil Brahmans

A Companion to the Anthropology of India

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 80-97

  Fuller, C J ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Brahmanical cultural values, dissociated Brahmans as a social category, upper middle class; Medieval period, Brahman minority "Brahman," as a changing historical construct; Modern transformation of old elite case of Tamil Brahmans; Non Brahman movement and reservations powerful Brahman bureaucrats, Deshastha Brahmans; Non Brahmans' resentment about Brahman predominance in jobs for anti Brahman movement; Non Brahmans, educated, urban elite resenting extraordinary situation, issuing Non Brahman Manifesto; People, traditionally high status "forward" castes overrepresented in this class; Tamil Brahmans, arranging marriages fitting contemporary "class" criteria of education and employment; Tamil Brahmans, minorities of Telugu and other Brahmans in Tamil Nadu; Weber, arguing that other worldly Hinduism and caste system why modern capitalism had failed to develop in India

Indexed keywords

EID: 84872583567     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444390599.ch4     Document Type: Chapter

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