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Question
Write a short note on Gender and sanskritisation.
Solution
Gender and Sanskritisation :-
- Sanskritisation supports traditional way of life for women and it is more liberal for modernization or westernization for men.
- Most of the supporters of Sanskritisation support the women life within the four walls of the houses. They support or prefer the role of women as a mother, a sister and a daughter.
- They like women to follow the traditional way of marriage with the consent of parents.
- Kumud Pawade as a student could enable her to read in the original what the texts have to say about women and the Dalits. As she proceeds with her studies, she meets with varied reactions ranging from surprise to hostility, from guarded acceptance to brutal rejection. As she says “I remember an expression I heard somewhere: “What comes by birth, but can’t be cast off by dying - that is caste?”
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