With the growth of anti-Brahminical movement and the development of regional selfconsciousness in the 20th century there was an attempt in several Indian languages to drop Sanskrit words and phrases.
• A crucial result of the Backward Classes Movement was to emphasize the role of secular factors in the upward mobility of caste groups and individuals.
• Recent years have seen assertions of Dalits who now take pride in their identity.
• However, sometimes caste identity seems to compensate for their marginality in other domains.
• But they nonetheless are discriminated in all spheres of life in terms of occupation, marriage practices, and food-sharing and so on. These caste rules may have become flexible to some extent but have definitely not disappeared.
• Thus, the lower castes have gained some self-confidence and pride but otherwise remain excluded and discriminated.
