ABSTRACT
Mobility through Sanskritisation in a caste context generates a sort of social friction. Lest its mobility endeavour turn out to be a superficial course of action, a mobilising caste will not remain content with its mere emulative acts. So, while seeking upward mobility, it questions the superiority of upper castes undermining all their credentials. And, whatever its form; modernisation also is a mere trimmed garment of tradition in India, and, therefore, utterly fails to bring about disintegration of social system based on caste. Naturally, caste and its corresponding realities persist unimpeded with their inherent reinforcing dispositions, thus neutralising all the possibilities of real assimilation and integration among different castes and classes even in the highly acclaimed liberal democratic environment in India. However, the rock-hard cordons, on any path of progress and mobility opted by lower castes, have been endogamy and hierarchy, as yet enduring as the essence of caste. The issue, therefore, is historical and structural in character; something that, by its very nature, tends to reproduce the whole lot of old inequalities into new forms; and that is the unique epitome of the social soil in India.
