The Inner Conflict of Tradition: Essays in Indian Ritual, Kingship, and Society c4.s9.3

c4.s9.3

Though the two orders impinge on each other, there is no process through which they can merge. Nor does the great tradition gradually supersede the little tradition, as the well-known phenomenon of "Sanskritization" (or "brahminization") seems to suggest. These terms imply not so much a process as a structure—a structure that is determined by the unbridgeable gap between the two traditions.