Interesting midterm election sideshow on Indian Caste in NY Times.
JD
Vance a Republican is married to an Indian Usha Chilukuri. The NY Times
hit piece implies Usha is of low caste and a traitor to her origins.
i.e she is sleeping with the enemy the Republicans and not supporting
the party of the oppressed the Democratic Party
One of the
blog commentors says Chilukuri is a fairly common and standard Kamma
surname So looked up the Kamma Caste.
What I (as a Sri Lankan) found interesting is that the
Kamma have sub group called the Nayaks. During the reign of the
Vijayanagara Empire, Kamma Nayaks (commanders) were appointed as
governors in many areas of Tamil Nadu.[
The last three Kings of
Kandyan Sri Lanka were pure as in India born and bred Telugu Nayaks.
They inherited the throne thru the wife of the last Sinhalese King
Narendrasinghe.
Another side note. The Sinhalese use the word
Andara Demla (Tamil) for anything unintelligible. I assume that was from
Andhra Telugu which is kind of similar to Tamil probably. Andhra Telugu
was probably used extensively in the court during the last three reigns
and totally unintelligible to almost all Sinhalese
Also read
King Narendrasinghes history He was the son of a concubine, but adopted
and brought by up Vimaladharmasurya II's Queen Pramila Devi who was from
Madurai (I sssume Telugu)
Incidentally Vimaladharmasurya II's father King Rajasinghe II (knox's King) later married his daughter.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Blog post referring to the NY Times article. Read comments too.
https://www.brownpundits.com/
Another nonsensical rant by a malcontent clown who is a Russian puppet. The NYT piece attempts to show the contradictory and ever changing politics of the Vances, no?
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