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Caste, Conflict and Ideology: Mahatma Jotirao Phule and Low Caste Protest in Nineteenth-Century Western India (Cambridge South Asian Studies)

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Let me begin by saying I have not read this particular volume, but I have read Phule's "Slavery," and have spent considerable time, both in the USA and in India, with the modern resurrector of Phule's Truthseekers movement, Sunil Sardar. Something in the publisher's blurb caught my attention: that Phule struggled against British rule. Perhaps I misread "Slavery," but in that book Phule seems to see the British as a possible catalyst for the elimination of the caste system. Certainly the "other Mahatma," Ghandi, opposed British rule, but he also opposed Phule's efforts--or the efforts of Phule's successors--to eliminate the caste system. Perhaps this is not a forum for discussion, but I thought I'd add my two cents (rupees?).