By this he means the brahminical elements of the Indian populations.
"The Ethnology of the British Colonies and Dependencies"
Robert Gordon Latham
Others, like the Khonds of Orissa, are contrasted with the Tamuls of the south, by their inferior and social condition, and their non-brahminical creeds.
"The Ethnology of the British Colonies and Dependencies"
Robert Gordon Latham
From beginning to end of the fourteen years in which Burke pursued his campaign against Hastings, we see in every page that the India which ever glowed before his vision was not the home of picturesque usages and melodramatic costume, but rather, in his own words, the land of princes once of great dignity, authority, and opulence; of an ancient and venerable priesthood, the guides of the people while living, and their consolation in death; of a nobility of antiquity and renown; of millions of ingenious mechanics, and millions of diligent tillers of the earth; and finally, the land where might be found almost all the religions professed by men-the brahminical, the Mussulman, the Eastern and the Western Christian.
"Burke"
John Morley