> It's an inevitable result of the way TamBram (and the rest of Tamil) > society has grown. Centuries of using the ability to read and write as > their sole currency in the scheme of things, and using it to wield extreme > influences on society have made the Brahmins completely dependent on it. > The Mudaliars, Chettiars, Nayakars and everyone else had a few other > fall-back options. They had land, they had livestock, they traded, they > joined the militaries of their time. The TamBram just went to school; it's > our ancestral profession.
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