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INDIAN UNREST.

THE INFLUENCE OF DRAHMANISM;

In one of his articles new appearing in The Tins Mr. V. Chirol says: The part played by Brahmanism is Ladian unrest 000 notes portaps more than anything else the reactionary side of that unrest. Though there have been said still are any enlightened Brahmans who have sordially responded to the best influence of Wastera exiucation, and have worked with

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 8TMя, 1910.

pale reflection of the prestige and authority of his more exalted caste-men-a prestige and be it added, which have often bean gustitied by individual which men hom far the influence of Brahmanian as a systems bas heen socially a good or an evil influence I am not concerned to diagues, but, however antagonistic it may be at the present moment to the influence of Westora civilization, it would be hair to deny that it has shown itself, and low itself, capable of producing a very high

tyga both of intellect ad of chamotor. the vicissitudes of centurica

was a mati ·of a

andurirable real and conrage to bridge the Nor could it otherwise are survived as it hasanism itself was about to take the foerlology of Indian narost I should I

gulf between Indian and European civilian tien, Brakmanism is a system represents the antipodes of all that British male must stand for in India, and Brahmanism has from times im- mosaorial dominated Hindu society.

A TRIESTLY ARISTOCRACY.

The Brahmans are the sacerdotal custo of India: They are at the same axe the proudest and the closest aristocracy that the world has over seen, for the form net merely mu nzito. cracy of birth in the strictest sense of the form, but one of divine origin. the Brahman it may be said as of no other privileged mortal, ex-

THE SUPPLENESS OF THE BRAHMAN, Neither tho triumph of Buddhian, which lasted for Boerly 500 years, nor successivo W3109 of Mahomedan conquest availed to destroy the power of Brah maniem, nor has it been broken by British sup supremacy. Inferibly as he dominates a social system in all essentials more rigid than LEY other, the Brahman has not only recognised the need of a certain plasticity in its construction

hich

Graver issues were raised when such ancient, ohser communion with the higher civilization customs an infant marriage and the degradation which those rulers, whatever their shortcom- of child widows were challenged. The fermenting, andenbtedly represented. Conspicuons of flows were

amongst angsur Brahmans themselves. Some had spenly ado. Equally sonspicuous in the opposite cump discarded their ancestral faith, and many more

different stamp, Bal were moved to anarch their own scriptures for Gangadhar Tilak, who was destined to become one

tion of the law less inconsistent of the mont dangerone some r

of disaffection. pioneers standards. It seemed at one It was a Hindu gentleman and a Bralian moment as if, under the inspiration of men like who told me that if I wanteil to study the by Rannde in the Decent and Tagore in Bengal, psycholog

Tilak's career. Tink's onslaught in parging Hinduism of its innst baneful sap- in

in Poona upon Ranade, his alliance with the erstitions and bringing it into line with the bigots of orthodoxy, his appeals to popular

and ethics of the West. Bat the

superstition in tho

celebrations, new Gonpati Philosophy

movement failed to prevail against the to racial fanaticism in the Anti-Corkilling the suit forces of popular superstition and orthodox Movement, to Mahratta sentiment in bigotry, combined with the bitterness too fre which he introduced of Shivaji,his native props- quantly resalting from the failure of Western gauda amongst schoolboye and students, his education to secure material success or evon gymnastic societies, his preaching in favour an adequate, livelihood for those who had physical training, and lost but not least his Though control of the Press and the note of personal ways. departed from the

are many violence which he imported to newspaper admirable exceptions. Brahmanism remained polomice, represent the progressive stages of a the stronghold of reaction against the Wostorn highly organized campaign which lina served us have figured prominently in the social and religions revival of Hinduism, and they have figured no less prominently, whether in the ranks of the extremists or amongst the mo derate and advanced politicians, in the political movement which has accompanied that revival:

old

there have been, and still

cept perhaps the Levito of the Old Tesisinent: allows for constant expansion, but he has invasion. All over India educated Brahmon, a model to the apostles of unrest all over India.

Nascitur non fit. No king, howover power.

can make er unmake genius, however transcendent, to Borrices herrements of the is now Western masters the

custo

himself shown anfailing adaptability in all non- essentials to

To the varying circumstances. Brahman adapted themselves from the frat with admitable suppleness, and when a Wen, tern system of education was introduced into India in the first half of the last century. they were nicker than any other class to realize how it could be used to fortify their own position. The main original object of the introduction of Westem orication tujo toli vas the triju of of a sufficient number of young Indiase to All the subordinate posts in the public offices with English-speaking natives. The Brahmans responded freely to the call, and they soon dequired almost the same mouvpoly of this new Westoru learning as they had enjoyed of tadu

THE BRAHMANS OF THE DECCAN Fundamental as the antagonism has proved to be between the civilization represented by the Irition the

conspicuous, no virtues, however premi сам avail to raise a Hindu from a lower oaste to the Brahman's estate. Not even the Brahmaus themselves esa raise to their own equal one who is not born of their este,

by the exorcise of the castel authority they can specific caso, ont follow Brulitan she has of

Brahmanion, it was bound to be more asute in Leaded against the immutabila saws of oste,

the Deccan the in any other part of India, for and, except for minor transgressions, which

nowhere had Brahmaniem wiekled such absolute allow of atonement and reinstalenients, when

power within times which may still be called once ou custed he and his descendants cause

rocent. Less than one hundred years age. Poons for ever to be Dalmana. The Brahmas

was the capital of a theocratic state in which dato

bohind the throng of the Paish was both spiritual when they constituted themselves the only ment of the great administrative sorvises, with and sovalar anthority Wero goncentrated in authorized intermetaries between mankind and the substitution of English for the vernacular hands of the Brahmans. Such stories are as the only official language, with the slow to die, and least of all in an ancient und of the ancient

language in rites are performed, and with

en British Hars, with the growth of soot of Brahmans, at any rate, who were deter the liberal professions and of the Prese

Lack to the romote ayes of the Vedas lore through the centuries. With the develop

which all religious

the

New You In them becamo vested the monopoly indicia) administration and conservative country like Indis, and there was one

knowledge of Sanskrit they opoly of the

of learning long after Banskrit itself ad influence constantly found new fields of active/mined not to let them die. Attention has

bocome

A

who wielded a Latin pen in the Mildle continued to permente those strata of Hindu Ages in Earpo they act as advisors socjoly with which the West had established

little or no contact. ·

and

they

conscien-knapors ነበ the sourcils of Hindu ruler. To the present day

they vory alune ona expound the Hinds scriptures, they alone can approach the gods in their temples, alone au minister to the spiritual needs of such of the lower caster as are credited with safcient haman diguity, to be in any way worthy of their ministrations,

In the course of ages differences and dis linations have gradually grown up amongst them, and they have split up into innumerable

THE INVASION OF WESTERN IDEAS AND HADITS.

been drawn

by the Chitpawan Brahmans in the iratta

government of the Deccan under tho Peishwas, as well as to the part which they have recently played in the anti-British movement down to and including the Nasik conspiracy. From the time of the downfall of tho Peishwa dominion to the present day there has probably beezi amongst the Brahmans of the Deccan, and especially amongst the Chitpan Brahmars, an anbroken tradition of hatred towards British restored and their own ascendency Not to mention other and earller indications, it was in Poons that the native Press, mainly cou ducted by Brahmans, first assumed that tone of viralent hostility towards British rule and Brit- some of the worst extracts quoted at that time

measure are taken from Poona newspapers.

rāle and sanctityby's undying hope that it might some day

subverted

Nevertheless the spread of Western ideas and habite was bound to looson to some extent the Brahmms hold upon Hindu society, for that bold is shledy rooted in the immemorial of custom, which now habits and methods imported from the West necessarily tended to undermine. Scrupulous--and, according to

over scrupulous da generation to generation, an increasing proper we were to respect religions fion were compelled to supplement the avocation judices, the inflaouce of Westers civilisation originally sucred to their easts by at her and low could not fail to clash directly or indirectly with lier means of firlihood.

Indin, and a very large non-essentials Brahmanism soon found it or majority of them have been compelled to adopt pedient to relax the rigor of caste obligations,

TWO CONFLICTING CURBENTS. and mercantile pursuits as, for instance, to maot the hard case of young

But if there were already then wild and irro- which, as we know Brandy regarded as, in certain circumstances, water to Europe for their studies without concilable spirits bout ou fomenting disaffection legitimate or excusable for a Brahman even in breaking caste, or indood travel even in their there were amongst the Deccani Brahmaus the days of that ancient law-givar. In repand own country in railways and river steamers themselves usuall intellectual elifs who, though to all other eastes, however, the Brahman, how. without incurring the pollution of bodily con by no means servile apologista of British rule, ever humble his worldly status, ratains an a tact with the untouchable cast. Peuanos fully realized that their primary duty was disputed pre-omineson which he never forgotser wore at first imposed which had gradually to be not to atir up paralar passion sgonet al en allows to be forgotten, though it may only be a lightoned until they came to be merely nominal. Fralers, but to bring indo society into

sects and sub-custes. As they multiplied from many carnet a beliefs and pre-ish rulers which lad to the Press Act of 1879, and

14 million Brahmangin nor are to-day over many of the ordinanoça of Hindu orthodoxy. In by the Governinent of India in support of that

sgoultural, milits tim Code of Maua, vore Hindus who could not fravel across the "binok |

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