Changes in Holi in Bihar

D N In the course of the lower castes acquiring dignity it is not only practices like wearing clothes of one's choice, sitting on a cot, etc, that have changed, but also the manner in which festivals and social occasions are celebrated. An example of this change is provided by the holi festival in Bihar, This democratic advance is now not confined to those villages in which actual struggles have taken place, but is a general feature of village Bihar.