evidence: The Brahmins of Urban India [...] Narasimhan, Haripriya, 'The Brahmins of Urban India', in Surinder S. Jodhka, and Jules Naudet (eds), The Oxford Handbook of Caste (2023; online edn, Oxford Academic, 23 Jan. 2024), https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198896715.013.25, accessed 9 Oct. 2024. This chapter looks at recent ethnographic portraits of the Brahmins in urban India. The Brahmin(s) is faced with four challenges in the urban spaces of India in the new millennium. A strong undercurrent of nostalgia drives the Brahmins’ relationship to ‘native’ places in far flung areas. Technology comes in handy in creatively engaging with religious practices. Education and employment continue to be the main focus and complaint while gendering of spaces and comportment animate discussions on ‘appropriate’ behavior. The salient point in understanding the Brahmins of urban India is through the discourse of ‘castelessness’ and related beliefs in ‘merit’. In essence, talking about Brahmins in urban spaces of contemporary India is to render visible their struggle to hold on to a world and times that seem increasingly off the radar, and argue for relevance, mostly amongst themselves.