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Book: Playing God

Chapter: Sanskritisation of the Muttappan Cult – A new hermeneutic for the Muttappan legend and ritual

DOI: 10.1558/equinox.24460

Blurb:

'Sanskritization' is a term coined by the reputed Indian anthropologist M. N. Srinivas, initially in his seminal thesis on the Coorgis of South India. Srinivas wanted to challenge the notion that caste is a rigid and inflexible phenomenon and that it has always remained inviolable and accepted in toto by the people in the lower echelons of the caste hierarchy.

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