Traditional vocations and modern professions among Tamil Brahmans in colonial and post-colonial south India
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Traditional vocations and modern professions among Tamil Brahmans in colonial and post-colonial south India.
Since the nineteenth century, Tamil Brahmans have been very well represented in the educated professions, especially law and administration, medicine, engineering and nowadays, information technology. This is partly a continuation of the Brahmans' role as literate service people, owing to their traditions of education, learning and literacy, but the range of professions shows that any direct co...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Indian Economic & Social History Review
سال: 2010
ISSN: 0019-4646,0973-0893
DOI: 10.1177/001946461004700403