4 The unit's synthesis (one paragraph, memorise)

Culture moves by three engines — transmission (enculturation), contact (acculturation toward or against others) and absorption (assimilation); Nepal's specific histories of movement are Sanskritization (upward into the caste order), Nepalization (inward into the nation) and globalization (outward into the world); and the state's question — who belongs fully — is the exclusion/inclusion axis on which Units 6–8 build. For the law student: every statute of the lasttwo decades (Sociology Unit 7's list) is an intervention in exactly these processes — law as policyapplied to acculturation.