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Question
"Sanskritisation seems to justify a model that rests on inequality and exclusion." Give two reasons to support this statement.
Solution
The path of the upper caste as superior and the lower caste as inferior is welcomed by the ideology of Sanskritization. According to Sanskritization, it is acceptable to believe in group purity and pollution.
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