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| What is the intention of 'sanskritizing' communities? |
people who speak languages from Dravidian linguistic families learn Sanskrit. lower caste south Indians migrating to north Indian states. Non-hindus claiming Hindu identity. The backward, lower caste people adopt rituals, and customs beliefs of 'dwijas' caste in order to get social and financial mobility in the local caste hierarchy. |
| The backward, lower caste people adopt rituals, and customs beliefs of 'dwijas' caste in order to get social and financial mobility in the local caste hierarchy. |
| Sanskritisation of a group has usually the effect of improving its position in the local caste hierarchy. It normally presupposes either an improvement in the economic or political position of the group concerned or a higher group selfconsciousness resulting from its contact with a source of the ‘Great Tradition’ of Hinduism such as a pilgrim the centre or a monastery or a proselytising sect.” |
