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Desanskritize

D n Majumdar. Caste and communication in Indian village 1958. higher caste abandoning their lifestyle dress custom and needs to be studied.
Major factors

Modernization urbanisation displacement. Kashmiri pandit sab abandoned traditional lifestyle
To grab reservation benefits. Maratha Jat Patel. Agrarian distress has also post them to seek benefits.
To move in St category by prseudo tribalism. Kammar cast have been getting tribal benefits
Emerging dalit identity and empowerment. People who tried to move away earlier now now find a voice in dalit identity. With power in panchayats and political parties identity Rising.
Dominant caste itself diffusing for facing challenges of modernization some are even them self going for desanskritize.

Upadhyay 2013, Indian anthropologist. The upper caste are no longer reference group therefore their emulation has lost much of its meaning. process by which an individual from any caste or religion adopts , emulates , learns and preserves the customs , rituals , way of life and ideology derived from Vedic/textual Hinduism. Sanskritization delink from caste.
Today rituals religion dress customs do not improve the the social or economic status of a person. Caste system itself eroding like jajmani system job specialisation stratification hierarchy are changing fast. So concepts of sanskritization and Desanskritization are becoming irrelevant.