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Jotirao Phule: Shetkaryaca Asud (Part 6)

by rti_adminon July 13, 2011March 20, 20232

Translated by Gail Omvedt and Bharat Patankar Chapter 3 How the Arya Brahmans arrived from Iran and the prior condition of the Shudra peasants; and how the current government constantly levies all kinds of new taxes on the farmers in order to provide whatever pay and pensions their employees want; and how the farmers have been forced into …

Dalitbahujan Renaissance

Jotirao Phule: Shetkaryaca Asud (Part 3)

by rti_adminon July 1, 2011March 20, 20230

Translated by Gail Omvedt and Bharat Patankar After that, if some rare combination of sacred events come, the Bhat Brahmans lead so many well-off farmers to Nashik, Wai and other places of pilgrimage and extort large amounts of wealth from them on the pretence of religious donations, wheedling at least one coin from all the …