Sociologist M.N. Srinivas conducted significant village studies focusing on the Indian caste system. His research introduced and analyzed a key concept related to social mobility within the caste hierarchy.
Srinivas identified and extensively discussed the concept of Sanskritization in his work. This refers to the process where individuals or groups from lower castes adopt the customs, rituals, beliefs, and lifestyle of higher castes (often Brahmins) to improve their social status within the traditional caste framework.
Therefore, Sanskritization is the concept M.N. Srinivas used in his village study concerning the caste system in India.
Morgenthau's principles of political realism are:
A. Politics is rooted in permanent and unchanging human nature which is basically self centred, self-regarding and self-interested
B. Politics is an autonomous sphere of action and cannot therefore be reduced to morals
C. International Politics is an arena of conflicting self-interests
D. The ethics of international relations is situational ethics which is very different from private morality
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Who among the following political thinkers consider the anarchical self help system to be a compelling factor for States to maximise their relative power positions?