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He opposed idolatry and the caste system (which was subsequently too strong to resist).
Despite the instability of the nation’s government at this time, it is remarkable that in the year that India celebrated its 50th Anniversary of Independence, a Dalit (or member of an oppressed caste), K. R. Narayan, was appointed President for the first time.
Like Glazer, I have questioned affirmative action and dreaded the creation of a legal caste/quota system.
A third group, not of different ethnic origin from the Japanese mainstream but unquestionably inferior in status, are the burakumin (“village dwellers,” a euphemism for their old caste name — meaning “much filth” — which was officially abolished at the end of the 19th century).
Derived from Brahma `the First Principle or Supreme Being of some Hindu philosophical systems such as Vedanta,' a brahman is primarily a person who believes in Brahma , or Brahman . By extension brahman came to mean a `member of the sacred or sacerdotal caste,' as Webster has it.