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Anti-Brahmanism is is hostility toward or prejudice against Brahmins as a religious, or ethnic, which can range from individual hatred to institutionalized attempts to vilify Brahmins.

Anti-Brahmanism is common in some of the states in India. There is also a significant amount of literature, generally anti-Hindu, which is anti-Brahmin.

Anti-brahminism is often encountered in these regions.

Some of the anti-Hindu groups are also based in Maharashtra.

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Here are some example of vilification of the Brahmins.

References

  • Politics and Social Conflict in South India, the Non-Brahman Movement and Tamil Separatism, 1916-1929. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1969. By Prof. Eugene Irschik