The Iyengar Brahmins

First Online: June 17, 2001
Page Last Updated: February 15, 2013

Iyengar (a.k.a. Aiyangar) is the name of a community of Tamil Brahmins of South India whose members subscribe to the Visishtadvaita (special dualism) philosophy codified by sage Ramanujacharya.

Table of Contents

• The Iyengars -- Kamat's letter to son Vikas on the adamant Brahmins of South India.

• Brahmins at a Game of Cricket
• The Father of Kannada Short Stories
• Initiated into Refinement from Childhood
• The Iyengars have been in the forefront of arts, science, & literature
• Portrait of an Iyengari Brahmin Elder
• Son of the Priest
• Traditional Iyengari Lady
• A Young Iyengari Priest

See Also:

• Town of Melkote