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"The mindset remains extraordinarily Brahminical in these elite institutions," said Abha Sur, a historian of science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology who has written about caste and gender in Indian science.

From Salon • Aug. 8, 2021

We see Ramanujan in flowing Indian clothes with Brahminical caste marks, chalking endless equations on the floors of a highly decorated Hindu temple.

From Nature • Mar. 29, 2016

Thanks to the intervention of the English Football Association, these spirits had now been harnessed to rules and ideas of "fair play" that were just as immutable and esoteric as the Brahminical code.

From The Guardian • Jun. 26, 2010

At that time it was a very flourishing city, and contained several stately buildings, among which was especially mentioned a Brahminical temple, not inferior to the largest monastery in Portugal.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 1 "Calhoun" to "Camoens" by Various

The Brahmin dances in Brahminical style with the dead man.

From The House of the Dead or Prison Life in Siberia with an introduction by Julius Bramont by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor