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Write a critical essay on Sanskritisation?

Answer

  • It has been criticised for exaggerating social mobility or the scope of 'lower castes' to move up the social ladder.
  • It leads to no structural change; may bring an improvement within the unequal structure.
  • It has been pointed out that the ideology of Sanskritisation accepts the ways of the 'upper castes' as superior and that of 'lower castes' as inferior.
  • It seems to justify model that rests on inequality, exclusion and notion of pollution purity. Leads to practices of secluding the girls and women, adopting dowry practices instead of bride price and practising caste discrimination.
  • The very worth of labour which lower caste do is degraded and rendered shameful. Identities based on the basis of work, craft and artisanal activities, knowledge forms of medicine, ecology, agriculture, animal husbandry, etc are regarded useless in the industrial era.
  • Growth of anti-brahminical movement led to assertions of Dalits who now had pride in their identity as "dalits".

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