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  • adjective Of or pertaining to the Brahman
  • adjective Of or pertaining to the Brahmins or their doctrines or worship

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Examples

  • In India, we do have the Bharatiya Janata Party that has worked hard, consciously and pretty explicitly at suffusing every sphere of activity with religion - that is, their Brahmanical brand of Hinduism In government, in education - and even in and with the Army, it has spared no effort to whip up religiosity and carry God all the way to the voting booth.

    One Thousand Reasons 2008

  • The 2nd century CE produced one of the most important expositors of the Brahmanical tradition named Manu.

    'Birkin' Yoga Sara Elizabeth Ivanhoe 2010

  • Infact, the Brahmanical forces and market forces pick up the elements of culture of lower castes for their own advantage.

    Archive 2009-04-01 kesav 2009

  • In place of it, the ruling Brahmanical and market forces presents the artificial culture with false values.

    Archive 2009-04-01 kesav 2009

  • Culture of the lower castes was taken up by Brahmanical class and changed its form and methods of worship.

    Archive 2009-04-01 kesav 2009

  • Culture of the lower castes was taken up by Brahmanical class and changed its form and methods of worship.

    Untouchable Spring .... అంటరాని వసంతం kesav 2009

  • Something about the cunning, Brahmanical, intricate, bureaucratic, file-bound, "apply-through-proper-channels" nature of governance and subjugation in India seems to have made a clerk out of me.

    Arundhati Roy: What Have We Done to Democracy? 2009

  • Infact, the Brahmanical forces and market forces pick up the elements of culture of lower castes for their own advantage.

    Untouchable Spring .... అంటరాని వసంతం kesav 2009

  • DMK rose to power in Tamilnadu under the plank to end ‘Brahmanical oppression’ and anti-Hindi language issue.

    cast out caste politics 2009

  • In place of it, the ruling Brahmanical and market forces presents the artificial culture with false values.

    Untouchable Spring .... అంటరాని వసంతం kesav 2009

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