Volume : V, Issue : XII, December - 2016

MAHATMA PHULE AND SAHU MAHARAJ “SATYA SHODHAK MOVEMENT IN KARNATAKA”

Dr. Balkar Singh

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 Phule was greatly contributed to the emergence of independent labour, peasant, dalit and women upliftment movements. ?us his movement was against the practice of untouchability, casteism and caste and class based as well as the gender based discriminations, socio–economic inequalities and injustice etc., By establishing the ‘Satya Shodhaka Samaj‘ in 1873, he gave organizational structure to his movement. His ideology is found in the following works like ‘Gulamgiri‘, ‘Rayots Wipcord‘, Jaati Bhed Vivek Saar, Brahmananche Kasab, Satsar (Part 1&2) etc; and has created mass scale awakening among the Shudras and Ati–Shudra non–Brahmins. He opened schools to women, Shudra and untouchable communities in Poona and elsewhere. Even launched movement against widow practice and opened widow rehabilitation centres (Ashramas). He also fought to safeguard the interest of the poor peasants and landless labours. His movement was spreaded to entire Western India and Bombay Presidency which included the Bombay Karnataka also

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Dr. Balkar Singh, MAHATMA PHULE AND SAHU MAHARAJ �SATYA SHODHAK MOVEMENT IN KARNATAKA�, International Journal of Scientific Research, Volume : 5 | Issue : 12 |December 2016

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