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Write short note : Sanskritization.

  • UPSC 2007, 1999, 1996, 1992
  • Visions of Social Change in India

M. N. Srinivas built Sanskritisation from fieldwork, not scripture, to name the one route of ascent a closed ritual order left open. Its interest lies in a paradox: mobility real for the group, harmless to the hierarchy.

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