Decoding Rahul Gandhi’s eagerness to be accepted as a Brahmin : Dilip Mandal
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Congress president Rahul Gandhi is putting every effort possible to show his Brahmin identity. His party colleagues like to boast about his janeu or sacred thread. By now, everyone knows that he is a Kaul Brahmin and his gotra is Dattatreya. The fourth generation of Jawaharlal Nehru, the eternal Panditji of modern Indian politics, is flaunting its Brahmin origin with vengeance.
Like all of us, Rahul also has multiple identities – religion, language, caste-gotra-kula, skin colour, gender, sexual orientation, political party affiliation, club or association membership, alumni of some institution, and profession. We decide what should be our primary and secondary identity at different points in time.
Nowadays, Rahul Gandhi is choosing to project his secular (a word that has a different connotation in the western and Indian contexts) and Brahmin identity. By doing that, he is perhaps trying to derive political benefit in the election season.
Is it beneficial to be a Brahmin? Do they have some privileges, which other castes don’t have? Let’s unpack the knapsack of Brahmin privileges.
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