topics: |  sociology | india | hinduism

What M.  N. Srinivas describes as Sanskritization, the historian David
Hardiman has shown to be marked by a bitterly contested and often violent
struggle over elite domination and subaltern resistance [30]. - Partha
Chatterjee.

blurb:
Scholarly examination of social change in postcolonial, modern India -
Sanskritization, modernization, caste mobility, secularization, and other
topics.  one of India's most noted social anthropologists.