The lower castes tried to assert themselves by borrowing and imitating the customs and manners of th...........

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The lower castes tried to assert themselves by borrowing and imitating the customs and manners of the upper castes. This was termed as Sanskritisation by

Mahatma Gandhi

B R Ambedkar

M N Srinivas

John Ruskin

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Sanskritisation (Indian English) or Sanskritization (American English, Oxford spelling) is a particular form of social change found in India. It denotes the process by which castes placed lower in the caste hierarchy seek upward mobility by emulating the rituals and practices of the upper or dominant castes. It is a process similar to passing in sociological terms. This term was made popular by Indian sociologist M. N. Srinivas in the 1950s,[1] although earlier references to this process can be found in Castes in India: Their Mechanism, Genesis and Development by Dr. B. R. Ambedkar.[2] A further illustration was his work in "The Aryanisation of India