Brahmin
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Are All Postcolonial Nations Brahmanical Constructs?
X.T.M asks whether postcolonial states are Brahmanical constructs, arguing that every successor elite preserves the borders it inherits. He draws on caste mobility, Sanskritisation and Radcliffe’s line, and notes the…
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Who Sees? A Caste Audit of an Anonymous Elite Indian Hospital
A surname-level audit of an anonymised elite Indian hospital, and what it tells us about reservation, fellowship capture, and how prestige sub-specialties reproduce themselves outside the reach of the Mandal…
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The Brahmins behind April’s Traffic
April 2026 traffic report: one 2019 post on Brahmin castes brings 16 per cent of organic traffic, readers come mainly from Canada, India and the US, and the authors read…
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Is Hinduism Pagan ?
The author asks whether Hinduism is Pagan. He argues that it is not under the historical, pejorative meaning, but that the Atman doctrine fits the broader neo-pagan sense, viewing Brahman…
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The evolving understanding of varNa in Indian history
Nachiketa, writing as a self-described informed layperson, traces how varna evolved from the Rigvedic priest and warrior elites through the Vaishya and Shudra categories to the modern understanding shaped under…
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Where Do Brahmins Come From?
X.T.M argues that the claim ‘all Brahmins come from Kannauj’ is wrong, since Kannauj was one medieval centre among many, and that Brahmins have several regional origins but share paternal…
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The Partition of Elites: India, Pakistan, and the Unfinished Trauma of 1947
X.T.M argues that India’s central trauma is Partition rather than diversity, framing it as a failure of two elites to share power. He says most Muslims stayed after the League’s…
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BP may have just jumped the shark
X.T.M mocks a claim that a Brahmin calling someone sub-human is casteist, arguing that an insult is an insult and that caste-specific moral disclaimers amount to moral policing.
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the highest signal comment of the last 48 hours
Promotes a long-standing commenter’s reply as the best of the last 48 hours: that Pakistani elites misread India by generalising from its north-west, that South Indians care little about Pakistan,…
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Vedam
A link to a New England Review piece, ‘The Trials of Subu Vedam’. The poster notes that the foreword mentions Brahmins four times and recalls vegetarian Tamil-speaking families from his…
