Political power flows through Temples !

 

Brahmins used their power and position to acquire control over temples, and thereby, the control over the land gifted away for charities to the temples by Non-Brahmins. 

“Buddhist temples and monasteries were either destroyed or taken over for use in Hindu practices, thus undermining the ability of the Buddhists to propagate their beliefs. The Brahmins treated almost all of those who acceded to their priestly status as Shudra, permitting only a small number to be recognised as Kshatriya, these being some of the local rulers who co-operated with them. By the 11^th century, this combination of association with kings and invaders, and with the destruction or take-over of Buddhist temples, made the Brahmins by far the largest land-owning group in the region and they remained so until very recent times. The origins of Malayalam as a language is also attributed to the Nambudiri Brahmin's mixing of Sanskrit and the local Tamil language. Their dominating influence was to be found in all matters: religion, politics, society, economics and culture.” (Page - 26- The Eezhavas of Kerala and their historic struggle for acceptance in the Hindu Society – Cyriac K Pullapilly ( published in the Journal of Asian and African Studies Vol XI, 1-2) – Religion and Social Conflict in South Asia – Bardwell L Smith).

Vivekananda has recorded, n his letter to Pandit Shankarlal of Khetri on 20.09.1892, this fact in the following words:

“….. in Travancore, the most priest-ridden country in India — where every bit of land is owned by the Brahmins, and the females, even of the royal family, hold it as high honor to live in concubinage with the Brahmins, nearly one-fourth has become Christian! And, I cannot blame them; what part have they in David and what in Jesse? When, when, O Lords, shall man be brother to man?”

The traditional manipulators of history try to delete certain phrases from the above observation of Vivekananda in certain editions, for mala fide reasons. 

The genesis of the power-struggle between Nairs and Brahmins is traced to 1050 AD. How did the Nairs reduce the power of the Namboodris to nothing for 700 years? And,  how did the Namboodris get upperhand later,  by utilising a king, whose ultimate desire was to become Brahmin and wear the three-stranded Brahmanical cross-thread, in this birth itself?The annals of history provide a heart-wrenching tragicomedy, which has been recorded in the Post pertaining to the king Anizham Thirunaal Marthaanda Varma, in the following link:

https://vaeyurutholibangan.blogspot.com/2025/11/want-to-become-brahmin-in-this-birth.html

Why that craze to become Brahmin

And, what was it that made these kings hanker after Brahminhood? Was there any real use in it? The answer lies in the proclamation made by Subramaniam Samy in an interview to the Thanthi TV  on 24.03.2019,  “I am a Brahmin. I cannot be chowkidar. I shall give ideas. Chokidar should do his  work according to those ideas / directions”   (நான் பிராமணன். நான் சௌகிதார் ஆக முடியாது. நான் கருத்து குடுப்பேன். அந்தக் கருத்துப் பிரகாரம் சௌகிதார் வேலை செய்யணும்” ). It is the long history which lies behind his brahmanical animosity and racial arrogance that made the kings of Travancore to run after the Namboodris to confer Brahminhood on the former.

     History testifies to the fact that the Brahmins, as a community, have never come forward to evolve an egalitarian society in this sub-continent. They want to be on top of the others socially, economically and politically. Hitler said that Aryans accomplished so much and became supreme “by trampling over the others.” (Page 87 – The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich – William L. Shirer). The same has been the technique of the Brahmins, till date, right from the days of Manu. 

But, when Hitler worked for his race which was a majority in Germany and wanted to crush a minority there, the Brahmins found that they constituted a minuscule minority in the sub-continent and had to subjugate a majority to acquire a superior status. There was no scope for them to acquire that superior status with the knowledge and concurrence of the masses.  The option available to them was to cheat the Non-Brahmins, using the term “Hindu”.

They can use the term Hindu to instigate the Non-Brahmins against the Non-Hindus and use the term “Brahmin’ then to, literally, insult the Non-Brahmins. And  they were and are using the two terms accordingly and alternately and alternatively, depending upon the circumstances.

When and how did the Brahmins use those two terms? 

Those episodes would follow.