![]() ![]() Ambedkar, Phule (or Fule) was the “Greatest Shudra of Modern India,” of course, “because he made the lower classes of Hindus conscious of their slavery to the higher classes” but more specifically because he “preached the gospel that for India social democracy was more vital than independence from foreign rule.”īabsaheb had already set forth this argument in his book from the 1930s, Annihilation of Caste (AoC), wherein he had stressed on the need for social reform to precede political reform. His book, Who were the Shudras? How they came to be the Fourth Varna in the Indo-Aryan Society written in 1946, was dedicated to Mahatma Phule (or Fule): “Inscribed to the Memory of MAHATMA JOTIBA FULE,” runs the dedicatory line in the book.įor Dr. ![]() Babasaheb Ambedkar’s prefaces to his works were often as penetrating and incisive as the main body of the work that followed. ![]()
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