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Discuss the process of social mobility in the caste system commonly describe as sanskritisation and westernisation. Have they effected any structural change in the system?

  • UPSC 1985
  • Social Movements in Modern India

M. N. Srinivas offered Sanskritisation and Westernisation in Social Change in Modern India (1966) as a paired account of Indian mobility — one endogenous and ritual, the other exogenous and secular. The second clause of the question is the harder one, and Srinivas himself answered it: the mobility is real, but it is positional, not…

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  • The two processes
  • Positional change, and what structural change would mean
  • The critique and the evidence
  • Conclusion

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