Brief Accounts of Brahmins, India..!
Contributions of the Brahmin community
Politics
During the Indian independence movement, many Brahmins, including Mangal Pandey, Nana Sahib Peshwa, Rani Laxmibai of Jhansi, Tatya Tope, Baikuntha
Shukla, Chandrashekar
Azad, Yogendra
Shukla, Womesh
Chandra Bonnerjee, Swami
Sahajanand Saraswati,
Adyakrantikarak Vasudev Balvant Phadke, Chaphekar Brothers, Anant Kanhere,
Vinayak Deshapande, Vishwanath Vaishampayan (famous as "Bacchan",
worked with Bhagat Singh, Chandrashekhar Azad, Basawon Singh (Sinha), Balgangadhar Tilak, Gopal Krishna Gokhale, (Rajguru, Ramprasad Bismil,Chandrashekhar Azad,Vanchinathan, Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, Ganesh Damodar Savarkar C. Rajagopalachari, Sri Krishna Sinha, Gobind Ballabh Pant, Kamalapati Tripathi, Sheel Bhadra Yajee, Ravishankar Shukla, Kailashnath Katju, Sir Tej Bahadur Sapru, Motilal Nehru, Shyama Prasad Mukherjee and others were at the forefront of the
struggle for freedom and later Indian politics. Jawaharlal
Nehru, the first Prime Minister
of India and Sarvapalli
Radhakrishnan, the first Vice
President of India, were also Brahmins. Communist leaders like E.M.S.
Namboodiripad, Hiren
Mukherjee, S. A.
Dange, P.C.Joshi, Acharya P. K. Atre and many others were
Brahmins.
Brahmins who became Prime Ministers of India
include Morarji Desai, P.V. Narasimha Rao and Atal Behari Vajpayee. Brahmin Presidents of India include V. V.
Giri, R.
Venkataraman, S. Radhakrisnan
and Shankar Dayal Sharma.
Military
Several chiefs of the Indian Army have been
brahmins, including General Krishnaswamy Sundarji, General T.N. Raina, General Bipin Chandra Joshi, General Sundararajan Padmanabhan,General V. N. Sharma.
In the Indian Air Force too, brahmins have
reached the apex rank of Air Chief. Among these, are Air
Marshal Subroto
Mukherjee, Air
Chief Marshal Swaroop Krishan
Kaul, Air
Chief Marshal Srinivasapuram
Krishnaswamy, Air
Chief Marshal S.P. Tyagi. India's first and only cosmonaut, Wing
Commander Rakesh Sharma is also a brahmin.
In the Indian Navy, Admiral A.K. Chaterji, and Admiral J.G. Nadkarni are brahmins who rose to the heights of
their service. Captain Mahendra Nath Mulla, a Kashmiri Pandit, commander of the INS Khukri received the Maha
Vir Chakra during
the Indo-Pakistan war of 1971, for his gallantry at the helm of his stricken ship.
Scholars and Writers
Among Brahmin scholars and writers are Panini,Satyabrata
Nath, Patanjali, Kalidas,Satya Sandhani Haridutta Dash Chanakya, Banabhatta, Goswami Tulsidas, Sur Das,
Keshav das, Behari Saint Dnyaneshwar, Eknath, Samarth
Ramdas. Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore and others like Mahapandit
Rahul Sankrityayan, Ramdhari
Singh 'Dinkar', Jiddu
Krishnamurthy, Hazariprasad
Dwivedi, Sumitranandan
Pant, Subramanya
Bharathy, Tarashankar
Bandopadhyay, Ramvriksh
Benipuri, Caitanya
MahaprabhuSuryakant Tripathi Nirala, Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay, A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, Bankim Chandra Chatterjee, Srilal Shukla and Manohar Shyam Joshi. Other Brahmin scholars include Pandurang
Vaman Kane, Ram
Sharan Sharma and Debiprasad
Chattopadhyaya. Modern
writers include R. K. Narayan, as well as the famous cartoonist R. K. Laxman.
Sciences
Scientists from the Brahmin fold include Aryabhatta, Varahamihira, Brahmagupta, Nobel Laureates Sir C.V.Raman and his nephew Subrahmanyan
Chandrasekhar, the
agricultural scientist M. S. Swaminathan, the ethno-sociologist M. N. Srinivas, and the modern genius of mathematics Srinivasa Ramanujan, Shakuntala Devi and C. P. Ramanujam. Raja Ramanna,
who was instrumental in making India a nuclear weapons state, was also a
Brahmin.
Sports
In sports, major names include Sachin Tendulkar, Sunil Gavaskar, Ravi Shastri, Saurav
Ganguly, Rahul Dravid, VVS Laxman, Anil Kumble, Rohit Sharma, Ishant Sharma,
Krishnamachari Srikkanth and many more; the world chess champion Vishwanathan
Anand, Ajit Agarkar,
Hrishikesh Kanitkar.
Arts
Saint musicians include Thyagaraja, Muthuswami Dikshitar and Shyama Sastri. In entertainment, Lata Mangeshkar, Usha Uthup, Kavita
Krishnamurthy, Hrishikesh
Mukherjee, Hema
Malini, Basu
Chatterjee, Sudhir PhaDke,
Balgandharva, Dr. Vasantrao Deshpande,Ashok
Kumar, Kishore
Kumar, Udit
Narayan, Shantanu
Mukherjee (Shaan), Abhijeet, Alka Yagnik, Madhuri
Dixit, Amrita
Rao, Sharmila Tagore, Padmini
Kolhapuri Deepika Padukone, Aditi Govitrikar, Gayatri Joshi, Sonali Bendre, Rani
Mukherjee, A. C.
Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada,Kajol, A. C.
Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, Vidya
Balan, Sonali
Kulkarni, Sadhana Saragan
(original surname is 'Ghanekar') are prominent names. Tansen, Baiju Bawra the musician of Akbar's court was born a Brahmin. Anupam Kher,
Arjun Rampal, Rati Agnihotri, Apurva Agnihotri,Sanjay Dutt, Hrithik Roshan,
Kamal Hassan, Mausumi Chatterji, Chunki Pande, Rekha and Meenakshi Sheshadri
are also Brahmins.
Saints
Brahmin saints include Adi
Shankaracharya, Madhwacharya, Mandana Mishra,Chaitanya Mahaprabhu,Dnyaneshwar, A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, Ramakrishna Paramhansa, Swami Vivekananda and Ramana Maharshi. Modern business leaders include the founder of Infosys, N. R.
Narayana Murthy, Dr. Gururaj
"Desh" Deshpande,
the founder of the Deshpande Center for Technological Innovation at MIT..
Several notable names in Indian
classical music belong to the Brahmin community, such as Bhimsen
Joshi, Pandit
Ravi Shankar, M. S.
Subbulakshmi, Veena Doreswamy
Iyengar, Mangalampalli Balamurali Krishna (popularly Dr. Balamurali Krishna), Pandit
Jasraj, Shivkumar
Sharma etc.
Source :- wikipedia..
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