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There has been a lot of outrage about the scrubbing of #MaulanaAzad from the history textbooks in India by the BJP, and justifiably so.
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But for the last 75 years, nobody seems to have been outraged by the fact that the greatest Indian public intellectual of the 21st century, Dr. BR #Ambedkar, was practically scrubbed from history textbooks by Congress governments and BJP governments alike.
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Sure, when I studied about Ambedkar in Maharashtra State Board textbooks, they told me that he was the author of the #indianconstitution and had grown up enduring great #castediscrimination. But THAT WAS ALL.
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On #Savitribai #Phule’s birth anniversary here is a thread on her contribution to the social transformation. The thread relies on the research paper I had jointly written with @JTschurenev. Link for downloading the paper. bit.ly/31kk2z3 #1
#SavitriBaiPhuleJayanti
#SavitriBaiPhuleJayanti
The restrictions imposed by Manusmriti to take education have been removed.
The knowledge givers, the British, have arrived,
So take the knowledge
Such an opportunity had not arrived in thousand years.
- Savitribai Phule, “Wake Up for Education.” 1884
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The knowledge givers, the British, have arrived,
So take the knowledge
Such an opportunity had not arrived in thousand years.
- Savitribai Phule, “Wake Up for Education.” 1884
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In 1818, the British defeated the military forces of the Maratha empire. In the battle of Bhima Koregaon, the role of 500 Mahars is by now widely known. This event is also important for the democratisation of education for women (Brahmin to Dalits), & Shudra (OBC) & Dalit men. #3
Rahul Sonpimple on why the Brahmins must thank #Phule
Before #JyotibaPhule , the Brahmins never had the idea of a nation, they were busy in proving themselves as outsider colonizers- the superior race. They constructed the myth of divine origin....
Before #JyotibaPhule , the Brahmins never had the idea of a nation, they were busy in proving themselves as outsider colonizers- the superior race. They constructed the myth of divine origin....
Brahmins like Tilak propagated that North Pole was the original home of Brahmins. Phule built his Satyasodhak movement against such Brahmin myths & countered the hegeomony by posing the idea of ‘Bali Rajya’ - Bahujan Nation against the Brahmin-Baniya rule...
It was phule who forced brahmins to leave their myth of being a superior outsider race. Later the nation and Nationalism became only discourse for brahmins to maintain their hegemony. In simple words Phule straightened the Brahmins...
