The Great Brahmin Land Robbery

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The Brahmins and the upper castes became the target of attack in Karnataka and Tamil Nadu when political parties with deviant ideologies came to power and rolled out programs and policies aimed at stripping them of their posts, positions and livelihood.....

The Emergency of 1970s dealt a death blow to the middle classes as it uprooted them from their land and habitat....

Kashi Ishvaraiah lived in the small town of Neelanji Pete adhering to a Brahminical way of life, with its attendant chores, norms and Dharma. He preached and practiced the proverbial "simple living and high thinking" lifestyle.

The Congress party led by Indira Gandhi as Prime Minister of India and Devraj Urs as Chief Minister of Karnataka trampled underfoot a numerically small ethnic group to achieve their narrow political goals...Ishvaraiah's Neelanji Pete was no longer the abode of peace that it once was...

Caught in a mire of leftist jargon, discriminatory policies, humiliation and rank injustice, the Brahmins felt cowed down but fought back.....

The present book describes the actual happenings in a fictionalised manner so as to make the narrative more interesting to the readers of the new generation.

GS Krishnamurthy is a senior journalist and is the founding Editor of Oriental News Service. He is known for his incisive style of narrating news, events & stories. He is the founder of organisa- tions which espouse the cause of citizens' well-being.

This book is an attempt to present the torturous conditions that the Brahmins in Tamil Nadu and Karnataka were subjected to between 1970 and 1990.

The story is representative of the people, the situations and the socio- political atmosphere when the Brahmins were targeted and attacked. Many of the incidents are adaptations of actual happenings. While narrating the historical fiction, the names of places, persons, times and dates have either been merged or changed or camouflaged to protect identity.

Humour and pathos have been juxtaposed to heighten the novel's appeal. The use of the autobiographical element does not necessarily mean they are the personal experiences of the author but is used as a literary technique to convey the ideas more effectively and to make the narrative interesting to the reader. The use of journalese is for similar reasons.

Book's Contents and Sample Pages