On what grounds can the claim be made that sanskritisation leads to adoption of upper caste rites and rituals?

A. It is inclusive of girls and women

B. Avoids bride price

C. Promotes dowry practices

D. Does not practice caste discrimination.

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

B and C only

Sanskritisation suggests a process whereby people want to improve their status through adoption of names and customs of culturally high-placed groups. The ‘reference model’ is usually financially better of. In both, the aspiration or desire to be like the higher placed group occurs only when people become wealthier.

Since sanskritisation results in the adoption of upper caste rites and rituals it leads to practices of secluding girls and women, adopting dowry practices instead of bride-price and practising caste discrimination against other groups, etc.