Would appreciate some cuming out of the woodwork. I already met a guy who spoke a language none of the other Indians knew, wondering if there's some sort of complex cliquery at play here.
It's brahmin status + skin tone, so northern indian brahmin (light skinned) > tamil brahmin, but a tamil brahmin is always > than a light skinned kshatriya
why are there darker skinned brahmins? did the caste system break down more there? did the aryans mix with a different type of monkey? did they just steal the marketing term from the guys in the north?