Practicing Success
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| Select the correct statement from the following. |
Sanskritization is a process which started in the twentieth century. Sanskritization was more focused on south India. Everyone became Brahmins through the process of Sanskritization. Sanskritization reinstates the purity-pollution logic of the caste system which makes an equal society difficult. |
| Sanskritization reinstates the purity-pollution logic of the caste system which makes an equal society difficult. |
| ‘sanskritisation’ seems to justify a model that rests on inequality and exclusion. It appears to suggest that to believe in pollution and purity of groups of people is justifiable or all right. Therefore, to be able to look down on some groups just as the ‘upper castes’ looked down on the ‘lower castes’, is a mark of privilege. In society where such a world-view exists, imagining an equal society becomes difficult. The study on the next page shows how the very idea of purity and pollution are valued or seen as worthwhile ideas to have. |
