It is the slow, but steady movement of the lower classes along the scale of the class system. But it has been very very slow. It took 2000 years. But it is something which is going on, and something which is almost spectacular in certain sectors today -assertion of the backward classes, of scheduled castes, of women.
Shri K. R. Narayanan President of India in Conversation with N. Ram on Doordarshan and All India Radio