These brahmin people will descend into poverty for some time. They will be demonized as being oppressors, and policies will be enacted to further strip them of power, and money. But they will cling on to their traditions, every last bit of it even if it plunges them further into poverty. Everything from their past will be closely preserved, and kept in tact. They will have preserved their entire heritage of a millennia perhaps better than any community in India.
The machinations of this modern world will pass over them, sweeping up everyone else in it's sight except them, and their plight will largely be unseen.
They have to exist in a way apart from the world, and accept their poverty, because it remains so incongruous with the modern world. This may be in fact a reflection on the rest of the world, rather than on them. The rest of the country will sell their souls, some unknowingly, but they will not. They are like the seeds to a wild forest that have yet to take root in an over manicured landscaped.
They are our liaison to other worlds on this planet, worlds that are very real.
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