Jotirao Phule
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Features
Film review: ‘Satyashodhak’ — A missed opportunity
As much as there are film-making liberties and historically dicey formulations, it is difficult to overlook the perfunctory character building…
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Cynthia Farrar — Missionary woman who inspired Jotirao Phule
Cynthia Farrar (1795–1862) was an American missionary who ran schools for girls in the Bombay Presidency. When she was a…
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People must visit Samata Bhoomi in large numbers: Baudhkaro
Vruttant Manwatkar and Krittika Aveira at Phule Wada, also known as Samata Bhoomi, in Pune. India recently celebrated the birth…
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Historian Shraddha Kumbhojkar on how Satyashodhak Samaj used print media
"As we can see in Europe during the Enlightenment period, the Gutenberg press played a vital role in the development…
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Marathi
आज तुम्ही बिनाविधी रजिस्टर लग्न करू शकता ह्यासाठी महात्मा फुले आणि खेडोपाडीच्या सत्यशोधकांनी केलेला संघर्ष
बाळाजी पाटील देशात इंग्रजांचे प्रशासन असताना गावांमध्ये श्रीमंत सावकार आणि त्यांना मदत करणारे ग्रामजोशी व ब्राह्मणकाका यांची एक साखळी तयार…
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Translations
Three Akhandas by Jotirao Phule
Busts of Jotirao Phule (l) and Savitribai Phule (r) A brief note on terminology Jotirao Phule wrote several verses in…
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Satyashodhak Samaj: Modern India’s first organised challenge to Brahmanism
Satyashodhak Samaj was a revolutionary organisation founded by lower caste activists under the leadership of Jotirao Phule. On the 147th…
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Jotirao Phule on why he started a school for Dalits
[This news item was published in Dnyanoday on 15 September 1853. It has been reprinted in the 2006 edition of…
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Descendants of a storm
Baba Adhav tells the story of Mahatma Jotirao Phule's descendants with Phule's daughter-in-law Radha aka Chandrabhaga as the protagonist of…
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Snapshots from Mahatma Jotirao Phule’s life
This article is the translation of an essay by Govind Ganapat Kale from the 1981 Marathi book Amhi Pahilele Phule.…
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