Samar's Brahmin pedigree holds him aloof from India's squalor but connects him to nothing else.
Often the farmer is from a higher caste (Brahmin), the laborers from a landless lower caste (Dalit).
The distance was at least 64 feet from the priestly Brahmin caste and 30 feet from artisans.
At first he taught in obscurity, in one small room with a grubby carpet, and only other Brahmin men.
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The state she governs has a miniscule Brahmin population - 3% - and is famous for voting film stars, dancers and film directors to political power.
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And the young man says he was loath to go against his family's strong wishes that he find a traditional match from within his Brahmin community.
Now, a coalition government of Brahmin-dominated political parties is negotiating with Maoist rebels, who have exploited caste and ethnic grievances, but are themselves largely led by Brahmins.
Lok Raj Baral, a political scientist, says that in a system of proportional representation some of the Brahmin politicians on whom the parties depend must lose out.
Rama came sweeping into my hospital room with the haughty grandeur of a Brahmin empress, wearing a salmon pink sari and leading a retinue of assistants, interpreters, and equipment bearers.
So putting a Brahmin priest in jail will not hurt Dr Jayalalitha politically - indeed, it may fetch her dividends when the state goes to the polls next year.
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Take "Two Sisters From Boston" (1946), a charming period comedy starring Kathryn Grayson and June Alyson as a would-be opera singer and her naive sibling stifled by their Brahmin family.
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Founded in 1954 by the Gowd Saraswat Brahmin community from Karnataka, this mandal is set apart from the others by the fact that the idol is adorned in more than 60kg of gold.
He is the richest man in a Senate full of rich people: a Boston Brahmin (his middle name is Forbes) who married an heiress and went to a Swiss boarding school.
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His rapid ascent to Valley Brahmin--one who picked an address far from venture capital's Sand Hill Road epicenter and still attends board meetings in shorts and sandals--has surprised many longtime venture capitalists.
Our lineup of suspects includes lousy weather, meddling Massachusetts government, and an overhang of Brahmin social aristocracy that steers the very brightest engineers into research and top business brains toward Bain and BCG.
Other Internet sites already compete with the advertisements that Indian families place in the newspapers, requesting fair-skinned, slender, domesticated, convent-educated Brahmin girls in their early 20s for their 30-something, tall engineer sons with a five-figure salary.
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