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Brahmin
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Brahmin as in:  Brahmin caste

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    Chacko's hero, Comrade E. M. S. Namboodiripad, the flamboyant Brahmin high priest of Marxism in Kerala, became Chief Minister of the first ever democratically elected Communist government in the world.†  (source)
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    The colonel's accent is Brahmin and his tone is fearless.†  (source)
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    It was said that her blessing would ensure one's being incarnated as a Brahmin.†  (source)
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    In less violent form, in subtle digs and supercilious little drawing-room slanders, Southerners who had ventured north were to endure such exploitative assaults upon their indwelling guilt during an era of unalleviated discomfort which ended officially on a morning in August, 1963, when on North Water Street in Edgartown, Massachusetts, the youngish, straw-haired, dimple-kneed wife of the yacht-club commodore, a prominent Brahmin investment banker, was seen brandishing a copy of James Baldwin's The Fire Next Time as she uttered to a friend, in tones of clamp-jawed desolation, these words: "My dear, it's going to happen to all of us!"†  (source)
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    Her family was old-money Bostonian, dyed-in-the-tweed Brahmins, and while early on I'd done my best to earn their good humor, lately I'd given up and settled into a grudging understanding that I'd never be good enough.†  (source)
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    Despite Hema's lack of interest in marriage, her mother was terrified that her daughter would end up with a non-Brahmin, someone like Ghosh.†  (source)
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    The Brahmins maintain that in the almost endless sculptures of that immemorial pagoda, all the trades and pursuits, every conceivable avocation of man, were prefigured ages before any of them actually came into being.†  (source)
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    The priest is a friend of Moushumi's parents, an anesthesiologist who happens to be a Brahmin.†  (source)
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    With three other Brahmins he formed in Mohalis a Boston colony which stood for sturdy sweetness and decorously shaded light.†  (source)
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    A Brahmin sometimes shooed me away from darshan.†  (source)
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    Twenty percent of Kerala's population were Syrian Christians, who believed that they were descendants of the one hundred Brahmins whom St. Thomas the Apostle converted to Christianity when he traveled East after the Resurrection.†  (source)
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    head for a second before he remembered that the hat was gone, then flung the hand up in a gesture that Grandfather said you simply could not describe, that seemed to gather all misfortune and defeat that the human race ever suffered into a little pinch in his fingers like dust and fling it backward over his head, and raised the bottle and bowed first to Grandfather then to all the other men sitting their horses in a circle and looking at him, and then he took not only the first drink of neat whiskey he ever took in his life but the drink of it that he could no more have conceived himself taking than the Brahmin can believe that that situation can conceivably arise in which he will eat dog.†  (source)
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    He was born from his father's left side, the father having swallowed by mistake a fertility potion that the Brahmins had prepared for his wife;* and in keeping with the promising symbolism of this miracle, the motherless marvel, fruit of the male womb, grew to be such a king among kings that when the gods, at one period, were suffering defeat in their perpetual contest with the demons, they called upon him for help.†  (source)
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