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Critically examine the concept of Sanskritization with suitable illustrations.

  • UPSC 2023
  • Caste System

M. N. Srinivas coined Sanskritisation in Religion and Society among the Coorgs of South India (1952) and reworked it in Social Change in Modern India (1966). Its strength and its weakness are one fact: it finds real mobility inside caste, and concedes that the hierarchy survives it.

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