How was the brahmins behavior toeards others?

Answer 1

The brahmins are the highest caste, the priests. The priests are traditionally meant to own nothing and live off the charity/benevolence of others. However, over the generations they have become highly educated and therefore quite middle class. As Hindu society is divided into castes, each caste used to stay within their own group and this was also perpetuated by the arranged marriage as marriages are arranged strictly with the caste sysem (including your sub-caste). Originally, the Caste System consisted only of 4 castes and there could be movement from one group to another. However, this system became corrupted with the introduction of sub-castes and no intermarriage between castes. Some people think that the brahmins also introduced certain rules which protected their interests by not polluting the system and allowing others to move up into their group (there is information to suggest that it might have been the brahmins who introduced the idea that women could not marry after the death of their husbands as they would probably marry out of the caste system (being a second marriage) for love and this would pollute the system).