| Autor: |
Sharma, Ursula M. |
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Contributions to Indian Sociology; Dec70, Vol. 4, p1-21, 21p |
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The article focuses on the problems of Hinduism that are existent in villages. Anyone who studies Hinduism in its village context is liable to be more immediately impressed by the diversity of its local forms than by their unity. The pantheon of any particular village is likely to be complex enough. Some rites are performed at the initiative of the individual and are directed to ends personal to himself whilst others are associated with fixed dates in, the calendar. The majority of sociologists who have made field studies of Hinduism have attempted to deal with this bewildering variety of its local forms by trying to arrange them in some scheme of classification, usually according to more or less culturological criteria. The process of Sanskritization consists of the adoption of Sanskritic cults and practices and the giving up of purely local non-Sanskritic forms. Insofar as Sanskritic forms bear prestige, they may be copied by castes who wish to improve their status in the local caste hierarchy. |
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Complementary Index |
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