WHY BRAHMIN IS INTELLIGENT A VIEW OF THE SCIENCE 1 The video sent from my friend was/is the cause of this article; video can be seen below around para 9 as what’s App Now let’s go into the diversity. May be still members may add more in this also. But I saw across the hatred for Brahmins, even from the well read while commenting. I have no reasons for such hatred at all. KR IRS 141222
2 In deference Sharma of India tagged to foreign university append the west theory of DNA ,originating from central Asia and Eurasia as under:” *The Indian origin of paternal haplogroup R1a1* substantiates the autochthonous origin of Brahmins and the caste system *Swarkar Sharma <https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=Sharma+S&cauthor_id=19158816> 1 <https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19158816/#affiliation-1>, Ekta Rai <https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=Rai+E&cauthor_id=19158816>, Prithviraj Sharma <https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=Sharma+P&cauthor_id=19158816> , Mamata Jena <https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=Jena+M&cauthor_id=19158816>, Shweta Singh <https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=Singh+S&cauthor_id=19158816>, Katayoon Darvishi <https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=Darvishi+K&cauthor_id=19158816>, Audesh K Bhat <https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=Bhat+AK&cauthor_id=19158816>, A J S Bhanwer <https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=Bhanwer+AJ&cauthor_id=19158816>, Pramod Kumar Tiwari <https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=Tiwari+PK&cauthor_id=19158816>, Rameshwar N K Bamezai <https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=Bamezai+RN&cauthor_id=19158816> Affiliations expand PMID: 19158816 :Many major rival models of the origin of the Hindu caste system co-exist despite extensive studies, each with associated genetic evidences. One of the major factors that has still kept the origin of the Indian caste system obscure is the unresolved question of the origin of Y-haplogroup R1a1*, at times associated with a male-mediated major genetic influx from Central Asia or Eurasia, which has contributed to the higher castes in India. Y-haplogroup R1a1* has a widespread distribution and high frequency across Eurasia, Central Asia and the Indian subcontinent, with scanty reports of its ancestral (R*, R1* and R1a*) and derived lineages (R1a1a, R1a1b and R1a1c). To resolve these issues, we screened 621 Y-chromosomes (of Brahmins occupying the upper-most caste position and schedule castes/tribals occupying the lower-most positions) with 55 Y-chromosomal binary markers and seven Y-microsatellite markers and compiled an extensive dataset of 2809 Y-chromosomes (681 Brahmins, and 2128 tribals and schedule castes) for conclusions. A peculiar observation of the highest frequency (up to 72.22%) of Y-haplogroup R1a1* in Brahmins hinted at its presence as a founder lineage for this caste group. Further, observation of R1a1* in different tribal population groups, existence of Y-haplogroup R1a* in ancestors and extended phylogenetic analyses of the pooled dataset of 530 Indians, 224 Pakistanis and 276 Central Asians and Eurasians bearing the R1a1* haplogroup supported the autochthonous origin of R1a1 lineage in India and a tribal link to Indian Brahmins. However, it is important to discover novel Y-chromosomal binary marker(s) for a higher resolution of R1a1* and confirm the present conclusions. (West to want to brand that Indian brahmins got the intelligence only from the CAUCASIANS? 3 First, some of the big (and not so big) companies in the West are led by CEOs of Indian origin. Indian talent finding space in the Western corporate world is a normal affair, considering the fact that Indians are granted around two-third of America’s H-1B visas for highly skilled workers. Many of these Indian CEOs in the United States are Brahmins. Second, Indian boardrooms are dominated by traditional business castes known as Baniyas. In India, the Brahmins dominate many arenas like academia, science and law, but not top corporate positions. It cites a study from 2010 that says 93 per cent of board members in India come from “forward” castes. Of them, 46 per cent are Vaishyas or Baniyas. Third, //: One, businesses in India favour those with established networks (mostly Baniyas and, in some cases, the Parsis). This led Brahmins to emigrate. Two, Brahmins have a “tradition of bookishness”, due to which they easily pass exams and enter the land of opportunities. Three, Brahmins are forced to leave the country because of affirmative-action policies in India. Economists Magazine writes” Blaming reservations for the migration of the Brahmins is beyond comprehension. Since *The Economist* column is talking about the corporate sector, it must be noted that despite long-pending demands <https://indianexpress.com/article/explained/reservation-in-the-private-sector/>, the Indian corporate sector has never been under the ambit of reservation policies. Unlike the US and European countries, Indian corporations do not follow any affirmative action or diversity programme. To blame the reservation for Brahmin migration to the West is a travesty of logic.” But is it not a fact and the Mag conclusion is lacking logic and embellishing the travesty of truth? 4 Siddhartha Mukherjee says, we do not need the hypothesis of white genetic superiority to explain the phenomenon ( vide Para 2 being denied). The self-esteem and intellectual confidence of blacks have been so battered over the decades that they have been conditioned to believe that they would perform poorly in an IQ test. A social psychologist demonstrated this. When black students were tricked into taking an IQ test “under the pretext that they are being tested to try out an electronic pen” or through other ruses, they did much better than when they were told it was a test of their intelligence. The intelligence that IQ tests measure, “is a meme masquerading as a gene,” Mukherjee says, “…To call the score in such a test ‘intelligence’, especially when the score is uniquely sensitive to the configuration of the test, is to insult the very quality it sets out to measure.” (IQ EQ are not so reliable and as good as house alarm sending false signals). Mukherjee argues that what you are born with are tendencies. Then you collide with people, places, love, accidents, arts and insults. Predetermined tendencies become a random person, one of those unique people. 5 This tendency to focus on their deprivation while ignoring the privileges of their Brahmin origin is observable throughout the personal writings and interviews with the Brahmin scientists. This acceptance and negotiation made Brahmins the ‘inheritors’ of knowledge. It is this image which led Jagadesan, a Dalit scientist to tell me over coffee that *IISc means Iyer Iyengar Science Campus *(Iyers and Iyengars are Brahmins from the state of Tamil Nadu and settled in different parts of South India). 6 "Why South Indian Brahmins are intelligent?" Even though I was educated in Tamilnadu, I was fortunate to travel and work in all major regions of India. Nobody has asked this question to me ever before. We brahmins were never recognized in Tamil Nādu, even though our community has contributed tremendously for the field of Education, Arts, Health and Community Service. We had to migrate to other states and other countries not out of mere choice but out of compulsion. So, I asked him a counter question, How will you increase the speed of water without altering the supply of water? He could not answer my question, may be due to lack of clarity in my question. I explained to him that only way to increase the speed of delivery is by narrowing down the aperture of the pipe. When the resistance increases and the given supply of water has to come out through narrow aperture and therefore automatic improvement in the speed of delivery and that is what happened to South Indian Brahmins, who migrated outside of Tamil Nādu. So far suppressed and underutilized talents of South Indian Brahmins are well taken care of by other states including united states. We are all out with a vengeance to prove a point to so called Dravidian political parties and its self-styled leaders, who have amassed brutal wealth with the empty slogan of seeing the god in the smiles of poor people. Hope you would agree with me. 7 If other controls (like environmental/ economic factors) are ignored (for want of data), the intellectual performance of the Brahmin caste seems to be *significantly higher *than what would otherwise be expected. In the California 2012 National Merit list, there were 184 Indian winners of which Brahmin = 112 North Indian Aryan Upper castes = 40 Dravidian Upper castes = 25 Patels ( middle ranking ) = 3 Sikhs ( middle ranking ) = 4 In the US diaspora, Sikhs and Patels despite being 40% of the diaspora, win just 4%. 8 The Almighty Brahmin! by Khushwant Singh (old illustrated weekly article) Whatever be the sphere of curiosity – literary, scientific, bureaucratic, or whatever, the Brahmin remains the top dog. Before I give details, we should bear in mind that Brahmins form no more than 3.5% of the population of our country. My statistics come from a pen friend, Brother Stanny, of St. Anne’s Church of Dhule in Maharashtra. They hold as much as 70% of government jobs. In the senior echelons of the civil service from the rank of deputy secretaries upward, out of 500 there are 310 Brahmins, i.e., 63%. Of the 26 state chief secretaries, 19 are Brahmins; of the 27 Governors and Lt. Governors 13 are Brahmins; of the 16 Supreme Court Judges, 9 are Brahmins; of the 330 judges of High Courts, 166 are Brahmins; of 140 ambassadors, 58 are Brahmins; of the total 3,300 IAS officers, 76 [per cent?] are Brahmins. Of the 508 Lok Sabha members, 190 were Brahmins; of 244 in the Rajya Sabha, 89 are Brahmins. This 3.5% of Brahmin community of India holds between 36% to 63% of all the plum jobs available in the country. 9 ASSUMING the above data indicate a genuine difference in intellectual ability between castes, we can make one of the following deductions: a) *Environmental*: Brahmins have a culture and home environment that focuses on intellectual (and spiritual) pursuits – which gives them an edge. b) *Genetic*: Brahmins have created a racist caste system which is designed to preserve their "genes". c) A combination of the two. My preference is for (c). I have no doubt that the caste system *HAS created a genetic pool that gives Brahmins (on average) an innate intellectual advantage over other castes*. But I believe that effect is relatively modest. 10 Learning Sanskrit expands the brain: A Media Printer- in denied it: *A study has been touted on social media by Juhi Chawla & Subramanian Swamy as proving that Sanskrit makes you smarter. But that’s not what the study said. **https://t.co/P2H0uFOgRW* <https://t.co/P2H0uFOgRW>* ( Subramanyam swamy)* Both posts sought to draw attention to an article published in the *Scientific American* that they claimed proved the so-called ‘Sanskrit effect’, the belief that the millennia-old language plays a role in enhancing human memory and thinking. Embedded in Chawla’s June tweet was a screenshot of a post made by *The New York Times* journalist Ellen Barry, who had, the same month, tweeted a link to the *Scientific American* article with her own brief description of its purported conclusion. B https://t.co/TndIl4cyr1 American experiment The *Scientific American* article <https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/a-neuroscientist-explores-the-sanskrit-effect/> was published in the beginning of 2018 and is written by James Hartzell <https://www.bcbl.eu/people/staff/james-hartzell/>, a researcher studying memory who is among the authors of a study on the effects of Vedic Sanskrit memorisation on the brain. The study had as subjects 21 Sanskrit scholars. The write-up dives deep into how Sanskrit scholars who recite the six-hour Yajur Veda in its entirety show higher development of the hippocampus, the area of the brain that deals with memory and emotions. The subjects were also reported to show an increase in size in brain regions that control speech and voice. The author, from his personal experience with Sanskrit and its effect on his memory, said the team set out to test if the impact was language-specific. For the study <https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1053811915006382?via%3Dihub>, Sanskrit scholars trained for at least a decade were tested against untrained people of similar gender and age. But the authors say that they couldn’t really establish a connection that was exclusive to Sanskrit. “Although this initial research … could not directly address the Sanskrit effect question… we found something specific about intensive verbal memory training,” Hartzell concluded in the article.{Its not doubt but deductions are based only on Sanskrit knowing people and nothing else; so brain expansion which is fundamentally explain by the biology only in for FOOD WE TAKE; but the study generally, in many researches had shown that learning process expands the brain; suppose there are many languages already learnt by the Pundits in the experiments. Then one may have a doubt; but it is not so; all of them have been taken for the experiment only from Vedic classes. Hence James Hartzell was criticised because it was a brahmin experiment; so, a theory of antagonism was floated. Many antagonisms against the Brahmins were seen in eery quarter, of opposing this research.} The researchers also attempted to decode whether the increase in Gray matter meant any reduced risk of Alzheimer’s: If it does, Hartzell wrote, vulnerable patients could be made to perform verbal memory exercises to prevent the onset of the debilitating disease. The hippocampus is the brain region associated with spatial navigation and verbal memory. The authors set out to explicitly study if this region of the brain is affected by intense training and memorisation like the scholars. They recruited 42 male volunteers — 21 of whom were professionally qualified Vedic Pandits from New Delhi who could recite the 40,000-word Yajur Veda fully and were trained for at least seven years or over 10,000 hours. The other 21, who formed the control group, matched the scholars in gender, age, and number of languages spoken. The researchers performed scans on the brains of all the volunteers. In an attempt to avoid a sampling bias, the scholars’ backgrounds were studied to ensure they weren’t selected from a family of traditional Sanskrit scholars. The study states that there are definite morphological and structural differences in the brains of regular students and the Sanskrit scholars, with the latter showing increased quantities of grey matter, specifically in the hippocampus. “This was an exploratory pilot study,” Hartzell told The Print. “We would like to conduct a follow-up study but we don’t have the funding at the moment. “We still have some additional data that we collected from the same participants to analyse before we think about how to design a language-specific study,” said Tanmay Nath, a post doctorate at Harvard University and one of the authors of the paper. *What the results mean* The authors of the study note that their results are similar to those obtained from other studies, like one conducted in 2006 on London taxi drivers <https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17024677>. The London study analysed the brain scans of taxi drivers, who often rely on memory to find destinations, against those of bus drivers, who follow a set route. The result was that the former was found to have increased grey matter in parts of the brain that deal with memory and spatial navigation. The near-identical effects can be attributed to the memorisation of large volumes of data. Even so, the jury is out on whether bigger means better. According to experts, the improved capacity to memorise and process that kind of data may not really indicate overall intelligence, as the use of the phrase “brain regions associated with cognitive functions” in the *Scientific American* article might be interpreted to be. “These changes cannot be taken as an indicator for improvement of overall intelligence,” said Sridharan Devarajan, professor of cognition and computation & behaviour at the Centre for Neuroscience (CNS) at IISc, Bengaluru. “The changes in the areas that are to do with [a] certain set of skills simply mean that the person is more proficient in performing those skills.” Marc Ettinger, a former neuroscientist and researcher at the US department of veteran affairs, agreed. “I have no doubt the same results would be found in Muslims who memorise the Quran or even people who memorise the dictionary for spelling, or digits of Pi,” he told The Print.(criticism) *Establishing specificity to Sanskrit* To evaluate effects specific to Sanskrit, the study would need to add several other controls. Firstly, the control group here was untrained, which meant that they did not memorise large volumes of Sanskrit, or any text at all. They simply spoke an equal number of languages as the test group. “You’d have to perform the study for 10 years with another control group that memorises large amounts of text, like the Quran or Shakespeare,” Ettinger added. Hartzell echoed the view. “The specificity of the type of training and concentration on oral precision, and extent of textual memorisation in the Vedic Sanskrit memorisation/recitation practices is remarkable,” he said. “To conduct a cross-sectional study with other memorisation/recitation traditions, one would need to match these characteristics (years of training, text lengths, accuracy of oral reproduction, age range of practitioners, etc),” he added. To study the effects of Sanskrit texts vs others, the researchers could potentially look to actors in their follow-up studies, said Devarajan of IISc. “As a part of their jobs, actors are required to memorise large volumes of text,” he added. “Their brains can be used to compare with the Sanskrit scholars’.” To determine if hippocampal changes actually improve cognitive function, subjects would need to undergo cognitive tests, which are standard memory tests like word lists and numerical reasoning. “Since this was a preliminary exploratory study, we did not perform cognitive tests,” said Hartzell. Ettlinger added that the follow-up study should ideally also have controls for several other factors, including the socioeconomic status of the pandits participating in the study. *A reason to learn Sanskrit* Among those who responded to Chawla and Swamy’s tweets, some people questioned the rationale behind learning Sanskrit. However, while it is unclear whether learning the ancient language enhances your intelligence, it is not as useless as someone might think. For one, learning one language can be a very beneficial stepping stone to learning others. Studies have shown that learning a new language can change knowledge and thought. Consider the German word ‘schadenfreude’, for example. Even before the word came to be used in English, the sentiments it described existed. They just didn’t have a name and thus weren’t talked about in appropriate situations as frequently as they are today. Another example is the colour blue. When we look around us, it is everywhere. But the colour did not exist in all of history simply because there was no word for the colour. Homer famously described the ocean as being ‘wine-red’ <https://www.businessinsider.com.au/what-is-blue-and-how-do-we-see-color-2015-2> and the colour blue does not even exist in nature. This hypothesis, that new words give rise to new ideas and newer thinking, is called ‘linguistic determinism’ or the Sapir–Whorf hypothesis. It is a branch of psycholinguistics. While the scientific community is yet to arrive at a consensus regarding this theory, studies have shown a clear correlation between learning a new language and its influence on thought <https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4628110/>. “A study that measured bilingual toddlers’ cognitive function <https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022096515001976> showed that they were able to outperform monolingual kids in specific tasks,” said Devarajan. Conclusion: While going through the Hartzell experiment, his approach and the conditions created for the experiments cannot be criticised as done by biased conduit pipes, spreading the ill will throughout, due to race and language and caste-based fanatics. The expansion of the brain is fundamentally recognised by an ancient language. Quran was tried but failed as Arabic and Quran cannot be objects simultaneously, and the end result did not produce any concrete subject till date. KR IRS 141222 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Thatha_Patty" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/thatha_patty/CAL5XZopfQXn6fB82kcuhkyZNB%2B%2BSK5tEEZJmz3atjg5BYgBgpA%40mail.gmail.com.
