Random Musing: Why Peter Navarro evoked the Brahmin Bogeyman

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But jokes and commentary aside, the Brahmin Bogeyman is a peculiar and very long-standing secular tradition of Indian politics and academia, which goes back to the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi. From an Ayn Rand socialist utopia in the North to a Stalinist one in the South, Brahmins have been an easy scarecrow politically. In America, it was an easy code to target high-achieving Indians, accusing them of caste oppression and complicity, with even attempts at state legislation to “eradicate caste,” which was ostensibly shut down by a powerful voice in the White House.

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