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Write short notes with a sociological perspective: Anti-Brahmanical movements during the colonial period.

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  • Impact of Colonial Rule on Indian Society

A movement is anti-Brahmanical not when it criticises priestly abuses but when it denies the legitimacy of the ritual hierarchy itself. Reformers asked Hinduism to purify itself; these movements asked by what right it ruled. That shift in the object of attack — from practice to sanction — is the sociological core.

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