Sanskritization westernization comparison
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Sanskritisation denotes the process in which the lower castes try to imitate the life-styles of upper castes in their attempt to raise their social status. The process seems to be associatedwiththe role of local ‘dominant caste’. Though for some time, the lower castes imitatedBrahmins, they soon shifted it towards the local dominant caste which in most cases was a Non-Brahmin dominant caste..
According to Srinivas, ‘Westernisation refers to the changes brought about in Indian Society and cultureas a result of over 150 years of British rule and the term subsumes changes occurring at different levels –technology, institutions, ideology, values’..
Sanskritisation denotes the process in which the lower castes try to imitate the life-styles of upper castes in their attempt to raise their social status. The process seems to be associatedwiththe role of local ‘dominant caste’. Though for some time, the lower castes imitatedBrahmins, they soon shifted it towards the local dominant caste which in most cases was a Non-Brahmin dominant caste..
According to Srinivas, ‘Westernisation refers to the changes brought about in Indian Society and cultureas a result of over 150 years of British rule and the term subsumes changes occurring at different levels –technology, institutions, ideology, values’..
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