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    A Gardener in the Wasteland: Jotiba Phule's Fight for Liberty

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    A Gardener in the Wasteland: Jotiba Phule's Fight for Liberty

    Srividya Natarajan, Aparajita Ninan, "A Gardener in the Wasteland: Jotiba Phule's Fight for Liberty"
    English | 2011 | ISBN: 8189059467 | PDF | pages: 118 | 92.4 mb

    Jotirao Govindrao Phule wrote Slavery (Gulamgiri) a scathing and witty attack on Brahmanism and the slavery of India s lower castes that it engendered. Unlike Indian nationalists, Phule (1827-1890) saw the British as people who could tame the local elite the Brahmans who wielded power simply on the basis of birth. Inspired by Thomas Paine s Rights of Man and the ideals of Enlightenment philosophers, Phule mounted a critique of the Vedas as idle fantasies of the Brahman mind. With the objective of liberating the Sudras and Atisudras, he founded the Satyashodak Samaj (Society of Truthseekers).
    Phule dedicated Slavery to the good people of the United States as a token of admiration for their sublime, disinterested and self-sacrificing devotion in the cause of Negro Slavery. Written in the form of a dialogue between Dhondiba and Jotiba reminiscent of Buddha s Suttas, of Socrates dialogues Slavery traces the history of Brahman domination in India, and examines the motives for and objectives of the cruel and inhuman laws framed by the Brahmans.
    This revolutionary text remains relevant today, and given Phule s rather graphic imagination lends itself almost naturally to graphic art. Srividya Natarajan and Aparajita Ninan also weave in the story of Savitribai, Jotiba s wife and partner in his struggles, who started a school for girls in Pune in 1848, despite social opprobrium.
    This is perhaps the first time that a historical work of nonfiction has been interpreted as a graphic book in India.