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Write short note with a sociological perspective: Jyotirao Phule as an agrarian radical.

  • UPSC 2015
  • Rural and Agrarian Social Structure

Jyotirao Phule (1827–1890), founder of the Satyashodhak Samaj (1873), is conventionally read as an anti-caste reformer. That reading is incomplete. Gulamgiri (1873) attacked Brahmanical religion as a system of slavery; but it is Shetkaryacha Asud — "The Cultivator's Whipcord", written in 1883 — that makes him an agrarian radical, for there he treats caste domination…

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  • The argument of Shetkaryacha Asud
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