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...
On this auspicious day of Phule jayanti more than anyone, it is the Brahmins who should thank Phule.
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