Dr. Cornel da Costa, all of us know that we are the children of God. But it would appear that Lord God wanted to do something different. He looked at our subcontinent and said, why dont i give my best to this region and see what comes out of that ?
And so He created a super human being and endowed him with 'superior' knowledge and called him brahmin after his own omnipotent spirit i.e. brahman. And to see that no physical harm comes to the brahmin, He created another super human called maharaja whose duty was , besides ruling the masses, to give maximum protection to His Hallowed offspring, the brahmin. And thus our country became famous throughout the world as the home of the brahmin and the maharaja.. Dr. Cornel, the thought that has been nagging me all these years, is how come the British who were in India for more than 200 years, did not incorporate these two terms i.e. brahmin and maharaja to describe the high and the mighty in their own society. After all, these two terms appear in the Oxford English Dictionary. If you will recall, in Boston U.S.A. some WASP families like the Lowells, the Cabots, and the Lodges not to mention prominent catholic families like the Fitzgeralds, the Kennedys are known as the Boston Brahmins. By the way, there is a story doing the rounds, that Lourenco Marques born Portuguese lady Maria Teresa ( of Thierstein Simoes Ferreira Heinz fame) wanted to present her Irish Catholic husband John Kerry as a Boston Brahmin was told by a segundo grau passed elderly lady from Pomburpa , who happened to be in Boston during the presidential election, that only catholics of Goa are pure brahmins and the whole world knew about it. Coming back to Britain, dont you thing the British could have used expressions like His Maharaja, the Duke of Ben Nevis or His Brahmanic Lordship, the Archbishop of Bournemouth ? May be the British knew something about our brahmins and maharajas that we , the mere mortals of India , know nothing much about. That reminds me,have you made a contact with the Lord Milad of Acton, may be he could throw some light on the subject. Antonio
