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IJSRP, Volume 4, Issue 10, October 2014 Edition [ISSN 2250-3153]


Scenario of Sanskritization at Shaktipeeths – A Step towards Empowerment of the Marginalised
      Dr. Rajesh Kumar Sharma & Sandhya Dixit
Abstract: Sanskritization is one of the ongoing revolutionary social processes in India. It is the process under which the religious practices of the Hindu upper castes are adopted by the members of SCs and STs in order to raise their social and cultural status in the society. By now the members of SCs and STs are aware that their cultural modes are responsible for their low status in the society. Therefore, they are ready to give them up for the sake of their improvement. Shaktipeeths and Durga temples in India are effective platforms for it. They provide an opportunity to such people to observe the upper caste religious and cultural practices closely and then to follow them for their own betterment. The scenario of Sanskritization becomes perfect during the Nava Ratras of Chaitra and Ashwin months. Obviously, it witnesses a revolutionary social change when during these specified Hindi months the people from all the castes mix up with one another and when they participate in the rituals together forgetting the differences of their castes.

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Dr. Rajesh Kumar Sharma & Sandhya Dixit (2018); Scenario of Sanskritization at Shaktipeeths – A Step towards Empowerment of the Marginalised; Int J Sci Res Publ 4(10) (ISSN: 2250-3153). http://www.ijsrp.org/research-paper-1014.php?rp=P343215
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