Punjab under the jajmani system for other occupations in other sectors of the economy, increasing their cultural and economic independence from the dominant castes, especially in Doaba. This led them to gain more political influence in the state of Punjab, India but casteist discrimination continues, especially in rural Punjab, in concealed ways despite there no longer being notions of pollution being followed.

In 2003, Ad-Dharmis of Talhan village in Jalandhar district