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Anti-Brahmanism is hostility toward or prejudice against Brahmins, often as a result of historical injustices permeated by the Hindu system of caste and varna, which had Brahmins at the helm. Anti-Brahmin tensions exist primarily in India. There is also a significant amount of literature which is anti-Brahmin.

Anti-Brahmin sentiments are sometimes encountered in:

• India and Nepal, among Dalit activists
• South India, among Dravidian nationalist movements like the Dravidar Kazhagam
• Maharashtra, India, among groups like the Sambhaji Brigade

See also

• Anti-Semitism
• Dalit Voice

External links

Some of these sample links are broadly critical of Hinduism, and not only of Brahmins.

Some critics of Brahmanism focus on Brahmins' historical exploitation of other groups, and contemporary caste disparities:

• Brahmin Gold: The Plunder of Paradise (allegations of historical anti-Dalit exploitation by Bramhins) * Brahminist Occupied Governments (suggests that "Brahminists" are responsible for a wide variety of so-called Indian human rights abuses)
• The Final Brahmin Annihilation of Dalitstan (allegations of anti-Dalit environmental racism by Bramhins)

Other critics link Brahmanism with Hindu nationalism or the Indian government:

• Brahminist Occupied Governments (suggests that "Brahminists" are responsible for a wide variety of alleged Indian human rights abuses)
• Sikhs Want Out of the Brahmin Shangrila - They Want Khalistan (suggests that the Indian government is Brahmin-dominated, and has ignored development issues)

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

• Caste
• Indian culture