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Sanskritization : Meaning, Characteristics, Modes, Examples & Overview

As our society has been almost ruled by Dominant castes, it overlooked lower caste people. Thus a term and practice also emerged as a result of Purity and Pollution concept i.e. Sanskritization. This phenomenon was first observed by M. N. Srinivas who profoundly found that people of low caste were intimidating other castes rituals in their daily life routine. It was called firstly as Brahminization as they were peculiarly following this caste beliefs and norms. But later on, this practice was emerged as following every upper caste and on a broad sense, it was termed as Sanskritization. When Srinivas was in study period in Mysore, he observed that lower caste people were following upper caste rituals like Brahmins wore a sacred thread across their upper body, thus they also started wearing those threads. Likewise, some of the rituals were strongly opposed by other castes, for example drinking alcohol or eating meat was highly discouraged, as a result, lower caste too stopped th...