Covering three decades of social landscape, this study examines various changes
that have taken place among the Dalits - a marginalized group - in the
post-colonial India. Transformation among Dalits has not been uniform across
India's regions and castes. Punjab was the first Indian state to experience a
revolution in its agriculture, which virtually transformed the agrarian
scenario. With the declining poverty levels and emigration to foreign countries,
the Dalits of Punjab experienced an economic transformation which led to the
emergence of classes within castes. However, the economic improvement did not
translate into social uplift, against which the upper caste resistance remained
quite strong. Despite the fact that