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Cultural Revolt in a Colonial Society - The Non-Brahman Movement in Western India (Hardcover)
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Cultural Revolt in a Colonial Society - The Non-Brahman Movement in Western India (Hardcover)
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The colonial period saw important social movements in India. Among
the strongest of these was non-Brahman movement in Maharashtra. Its
founder was a remarkable intellectual and social activist from the
gardener (Mali) caste, Jotirao Phule (1827-90). His writings laid
the foundations of the movement, and the Satyashodhak Samaj
(Truthseekers Society) which he founded in 1873, became its primary
radical organisation, lasting until the 1930s. Shahu Maharaj, the
Maratha maharaja of Kolhapur, who turned against Brahmans because
they considered him a shudra, and became radicalised from this, was
a major patron. The heyday of the movement took place between 1910
and 1930, when the Satyashodhak Samaj carried the message of
anti-caste anti-Brahmanism throughout Maharashtra; one of its
offshoots was a strong peasant movement. In the 1920s a political
party emerged, as did Dr B R Ambedkar's Dalit movement, which drew
sustenance also from support of the non-Brahmans and patrons such
as Shahu Maharaj. Young radicals such as Keshavrao Jedhe and
Dinkarrao Javalkar challenged Brahman cultural dominance in Pune
and intervened in the Brahman-dominated Communist movement in
Mumbai. By the 1930s, however, the movement died away as the
majority of its activists joined Congress. It has left a strong
heritage, but the failure to really link nationalism with a strong
anti-caste movement has left a heritage of continued and often
unadmitted dominance of caste in Indian society today. This classic
study on the non-Brahman movement in western India is invaluable
for scholars of sociology, caste movements, Dalit studies and
colonialism.
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