De-Sanskritisation

Social mobility is an age long process occurring throughout India and World altogether. Previously there was a paper on Sanskri...

Social mobility is an age long process occurring throughout India and World altogether. Previously there was a paper on Sanskritization which is a sort of social change in upwards mobility prevailed in India to get the benefits of the upper caste or the dominant caste of a particular region by emulating their ceremonial rituals and practices by the lower caste.  This pattern of shift indicates that the people get inclined towards the beneficial category of the society, which is what we find in de-sanskritization the exact opposite of sanskritization.

De-sanskritization is the process of downwards social mobility found in India, where the people try to acquire the low profile social status by getting sanctioned with caste identities of the lower castes in the Indian caste hierarchy. The process of de-sanskritisation is very much in fashion nowadays in contemporary India due to its advantages that is obtained by the people through various castes based Indian Governmental policies as moving upward in the caste hierarchy was no more beneficial to the people of India, thus attempts to claim or reclaim of lower caste were made.

De-sanskritisation is the result of reservations and various sorts of political agendas that are being correlated along with caste identities for lower caste status in the Indian Caste hierarchy. For instance, increasing trends have been experienced where people from different social groups have projected themselves as Schedule Caste, Schedule Tribes and Other Backward Classes as recognized by the Indian Government to accrue the related benefits likewise the Gujjars in Rajasthan and the Jats of North Western parts of India developed agitations to claim the status to include their groups in the list of Backward classes by the Indian Government.

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• Shankar Rao, C.N. (2004). Sociology of Indian Society (Revised Ed.). S. Chand and Company Private Limited.
• Nagla, B.K. (2008). Indian Sociological Thought. Rawat Publications.
• Ahuja, Ram (1993). Indian Social System. Rawat Publications.
• Various

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