MAHATMA JYOTIRAO PHULE- english
MAHATMA JYOTIRAO PHULE- english

Author: Dr. Ravindra Thakur Translated From MARATHI to ENGLISH by Reshma Kulkarni-Pathare

Publisher: MEHTA PUBLISHING HOUSE

Published: 2020-02-17

Total Pages: 514

ISBN-13: 935317404X

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"….. It is a very difficult task to write a biographical novel. In order to ensure the right balance of facts with creative liberty, the author needs to have the skills of a good biographer, as well as, a novelist. A biographer is a researcher and collector of memories; whereas, a novelist is mainly a dreamer who can spin stories out of nothingness. But, the author of a biographical novel needs to be an amalgamation of both, creativity and fact-finding, both. S/he needs to diligently record all the facts related to the protagonist's life. Even though s/he may take creative liberty while writing the novel, it cannot be forgotten that finally it is a 'biography', which must do justice to the happenings in the protagonist's life. Dates, timelines, family members, enemies, relations, important incidents etc., need to be mentioned properly, without taking them into the ambit of creative liberty. Only after doing so much preparation does a novelist become set to write a good biographical novel. What prompts a biographer to turn a person's life account into a novel, instead of taking the easy route and narrating his/her story in a straight way? It is the excitement of interspersing an author's gift of imagination and ingenuity with the actualities of the protagonist's life. However, it is a tightrope walk to be able to exercise one's creative abilities, while staying true to the researcher within. Only the perfect alchemy of both these factors can result in an excellent biographical novel." – M.W. Dhond An inspirational biographical novel about the life, times, personality, and revolutionary thoughts of the great man, Jyotirao Phule: 'MAHATMA'

Mahatma Jotirao Phooley
Mahatma Jotirao Phooley

Author: Dhananjay Keer

Publisher: Popular Prakashan

Published: 1964

Total Pages: 332

ISBN-13: 9788171540662

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Biography of Jotīrāva Govindarāva Phule, 1827-1890, social reformer from Maharashtra, India.

Caste, Conflict and Ideology
Caste, Conflict and Ideology

Author: Rosalind O'Hanlon

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2002-08-22

Total Pages: 346

ISBN-13: 9780521523080

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The nineteenth century saw the beginning of a violent and controversial movement of protest amongst western India's low and untouchable castes, aimed at the effects of their lowly position within the Hindu caste hierarchy. This study concentrates on the first leader of this movement, Mahatma Jotirao Phule.

Jotirao Phule
Jotirao Phule

Author: Tarkteerth Laxmanshastri Joshi

Publisher:

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 112

ISBN-13:

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Mahatma Jotirao Phule was one of the foremost exponents of modern humanitarian thought in India and a revolutionary in his thinking for his rights. The book records his exemplary life.

Selected Writings of Jotirao Phule
Selected Writings of Jotirao Phule

Author: Jotīrāva Govindarāva Phule

Publisher:

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 268

ISBN-13:

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Jotirao Phule (1827?1890) was India?s first systematic theorist of caste, and the most radical 19th-century opponent of it, who desired nothing less than a complete smashing up of its oppressive structure. This volume makes available for the first time all his most important prose writings in English.At the centre of Phule?s thought and analysis are Gulamgiri (Slavery) and Shetkaryacha Asud (Cultivator?s Whipcord), both included in this volume in their entirety. Also included are Phule?s deposition to the Hunter Commission on Education; his response to the Parsi social reformer Malabari?s notes on ?Infant Marriage and Enforced Widowhood?; his letter to M.G. Ranade regarding the Marathi Author?s Conference; his stirring defence of Pandita Ramabai in two numbers of the journal Satsar; and selections from The Book of the True Faith. All translations have been specially commissioned for this richly annotated volume, and the Editor?s Introduction places Phule?s life, work, and thought, as well as each text included in this volume, in historical perspective.

Debrahmanising History
Debrahmanising History

Author: Braj Ranjan Mani

Publisher: Manohar Publishers

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 460

ISBN-13: 9788173046483

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Debrahmanising History Is A Sweeping And Radical Survey Of The Major Dalit-Bahujan Intellectuals And Movements Over 2500 Years Of Indian History, From Buddha To Ambedkar.

Who Were the Shudras
Who Were the Shudras

Author: B. R. Ambedkar

Publisher:

Published: 2021-09-15

Total Pages: 298

ISBN-13: 9789354991028

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The general proposition that the social organization of the Indo-Aryans was based on the theory of Chaturvarnya and that Chaturvarnya means division of society into four classes-Brahmins (priests), Kshatriyas (soldiers), Vaishyas (traders) and Shudras (menials) does not convey any idea of the real nature of the problem of the Shudras nor of its magnitude. Chaturvarnya would have been a very innocent principle if it meant no more than mere division of society into four classes. Unfortunately, more than this is involved in the theory of Chaturvarnya. Besides dividing society into four orders, the theory goes further and makes the principle of graded inequality. Under the system of Chaturvarnya, the Shudra is not only placed at the bottom of the gradation but he is subjected to innumerable ignominies and disabilities so as to prevent him from rising above the condition fixed for him by law. Indeed until the fifth Varna of the Untouchables came into being, the Shudras were in the eyes of the Hindus the lowest of the low. This shows the nature of what might be called the problem of the Shudras. If people have no idea of the magnitude of the problem it is because they have not cared to know what the population of the Shudras is.

Ambedkar, Gandhi and Patel
Ambedkar, Gandhi and Patel

Author: Raja Sekhar Vundru

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2017-12-10

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13: 9386826240

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In 1931 Mahatma Gandhi and Dr. B R Ambedkar met in London and clashed on the future of India's electoral system. Later in 1932 when the British announced reserved seats for dalits, Gandhi went on a fast unto death. Ambedkar saved his life by agreeing to the changed terms of representation, which changed the course of electoral system of India. The Gandhi - Ambedkar engagement was only on the electoral system and method of election by separate electorates which Muslims enjoyed till then. Till the partition of India in 1947, the draft Constitution provided reserved seats for minorities and Dalits, which Sardar Patel chose to abolish. The fate of India's electoral system shifted to Ambedkar and Sardar Patel after Gandhi's assassination in 1948. Sardar Patel tried to abolish reserved seats for Dalits also in 1948 only to be thwarted by Ambedkar. Those reserved seats continue. Based on a singular pursuit of tracing the electoral system and methods that define India-the world's largest democracy, this book is the first to document the evolution and account of electoral history of colonial and independent India. Do we know how Sardar Patel and Gandhi used electoral system to integrate India? Since the first provincial elections in 1937, do we know that double member constituencies existed till 1961, only to be abolished by Jawaharlal Nehru? Do we know that Ambedkar lost his first election in independent India because voters threw away their ballots? If we need women reserved seats, we need to know that we might have to try to double member constituencies. This book tells all. The story of electoral thoughts and ideas of Ambedkar, Gandhi and Patel and Ambedkar's struggle to get a representative electoral system appear for the first time in a book. In India only election results are predicted, analysed and compiled. The electoral method that determines India's every election comes into focus in this book. Can any political party get away without offering tickets to one minority community or Dalits? The history is the answer to the future - through this book.