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is the process whereby individuals belonging to the lower castes seek to raise their status by adopting the rituals and practices of the higher castes.

As against the notion of ossified caste distinctions, he introduced the idea that individuals belonging to the lower castes seek to raise their status by adopting the rituals and practices of the higher castes, a process he later called Sanskritization.' gaillard)

M.N. Srinivas

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