Discuss the social significance
The Social Significance of Pilgrimages is a social process. He emphasizes the communities in pilgrimages and their liminal character. He has shown how pilgrimage is related to different aspects of social life, namely, social and cultural integration, education, economic, political and other kinds of activities.
One can observe the contribution of pilgrimages to social and cultural integration of a people at three levels as under:
(i) First, pilgrimage promotes national or regional integration cutting across , group boundaries.
(ii) Pilgrimage has a impact on the group of the pilgrims in maintaining and > strengthening the values and ideals held by the group.
(iii) In many cases Pilgrimage serves to reinforce the existing patterns of social relations within the area from which the pilgrimage draws pilgrims. India abounds in diversities of rice, region, language, sect, caste etc. The pilgrimages have been a very important vehicle of the idea of essential unity of the Indian people. M.N. Srinivas (1962 : 105) writes, “The concept of unity of India is essentially a religious one”. Famous centres
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