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| What is surprising is the high number Muslim students and some Christians as well studying Sanskrit |
December 3, 2015, NewsCrunch
In country’s tech capital, Bengaluru, Non-Brahmins outnumber Brahmins in studying Sanskrit, and a good many of them are Muslims.
There are 18 eighteen aided Sanskrit teaching institutions in Bengaluru. These have 520 Brahmin, 1,646 Non-Brahmin, 45 Muslim and 10 Christian students, according to Bangalore Mirror.
In country’s tech capital, Bengaluru, Non-Brahmins outnumber Brahmins in studying Sanskrit, and a good many of them are Muslims.
There are 18 eighteen aided Sanskrit teaching institutions in Bengaluru. These have 520 Brahmin, 1,646 Non-Brahmin, 45 Muslim and 10 Christian students, according to Bangalore Mirror.
Non-Brahmins – from SC,ST, Vokkaliga and Lingayat communities – outnumber Brahmins by a factor of three. Sixty SC/ST students have enrolled to a graduation course in Sanskrit.
The Non-Brahmin interest in Sanskrit is not surprising as various caste groups have set up Sanskrit colleges to challenge the hold of Brahmins over the language.
What is surprising is the high number of Muslim students and some Christians as well studying the language. Muslim students amount to 8% of Brahmin students studying Sanskrit.
Mirror interviewed a student Ayesha Imtiaz, 14, who said she has been studying Sanskrit since she was just eight years old, for the love of the language.
Today, she has memorized more than 400 subhashistas.
Mirror also reported that four Sanskrit schools -