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Write short note with a sociological Perspective: How far Srinivas’s Sanskritization is modernizing force or traditionalizing force in understanding the changes in caste system?

  • UPSC 2015
  • Caste System

M. N. Srinivas built Sanskritisation in Social Change in Modern India (1966) as one half of a pair, the other being Westernisation. The pairing itself answers the question: he reserved the modernising work for Westernisation. Sanskritisation is overwhelmingly a traditionalising force, modernising only in its unintended effects.

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