Mantri-ji didnt read his own wiki-ref: Dia de Muertos is a very bad exmple. Pre-Hispanic remembrance was in summer: current form in winter isnt due to any native "rigidification/petrification", but stamping out native form by violent colonial church imported Europ medieval form.
https://twitter.com/RituRathaur/status/1329723908572942336
Pathbreaking "young" scholars can't be so slapstick: it will sound like they are shouldering the task of transcoding away the responsibility for corruption and replacement of native cultural forms by colonial and post-colonial colonial grip on reshaping of culture.
If there have been undesirable replacements in culture, its because the the source ideologies of such replacements have not been allowed to be criticized, their actual history covered up, their role whitewashed - while the "native" has been freely vilified.
These mutations happened not because of any rigidification or "petrification": but a persistent denigration of Hindu traditions& the constant adulation of Christian or Islamic practices seen& shown as "better" alternatives. Not just by vested "others" but seeming "insiders" too.
Even calling these traditions "rigid" and "petrified" is a deeply disturbing and latent hint of disrespect and insulting discomfort with "what was" - how can such a mindset seek to "rediscover" traditions? it can only invent. Deeply disappointing.
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