Lower caste movement and the idea of social equality under the raj : jyotirao phule and maratha renaissance

Sengupta, Shilajit

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Title:	Lower caste movement and the idea of social equality under the raj : jyotirao phule and maratha renaissance
Other Titles:	SOCIAL TRENDS, Vol.4, 31 March 2017, p 83-92
Authors:	Sengupta, Shilajit
Keywords:	Social Reform Mass Education Equality Caste Social Rights
Issue Date:	31-Mar-2017
Publisher:	University of North Bengal
Description:	Post-Colonial Indian state was fraught with high level of caste discrimination, illiteracy, agricultural failures and many such grimy situations which now partially have been addressed by systematic and strategic planning since 1951. Considering the vastness and incredibly heterogeneous demography of the nation bringing in social equality by eradicating caste hierarchy, education for all and agricultural development policies are the key areas where India has been performing well unlike other South Asian countries of third world. The seed of the idea behind many such policies especially in development of mass education was sown by great Indian thinker Jyotirao Govindrao Phule. In primary and higher education for masses, right to the farmers and the true realization of a just and egalitarian society which would be neither caged under the clutches of foreign rulers nor dominated by hierarchically structured class and caste based Hindu society this erudite Marathi Activist-Writer- Thinker has made commendable contribution. Phule’s work brought an era of renaissance which gave voice to the lower caste marginalized population unlike the mainstream upper caste-bourgeois led nationalist movement which failed to include the age old cultural and social deprivation of sudras and untouchables of the land. This article will focus on Phule’s view on social reform during mid and late 19th century colonial India which later influenced emancipatory movements of lower caste people and their struggle for social equality in Independent India.
URI:	http://ir.nbu.ac.in/handle/123456789/3591
ISSN:	2348-6538
Appears in Collections:	Vol. 04 (March 2017)

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