Random Musing: Why Peter Navarro evoked the Brahmin Bogeyman
Monday, 1 September 2025 () But jokes and commentary aside, the Brahmin Bogeyman is a peculiar and very long-standing secular tradition of Indian politics and academia, which goes back to the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi. From an Ayn Rand socialist utopia in the North to a Stalinist one in the South, Brahmins have been an easy scarecrow politically. In America, it was an easy code to target high-achieving Indians, accusing them of caste oppression and complicity, with even attempts at state legislation to βeradicate caste,β which was ostensibly shut down by a powerful voice in the White House.
Monday, 1 September 2025 ()
