Phule through his book Ghulamagiri (1872) and his organization Satyashodhak Mandal, proclaimed the need to save the lower castes from the hypocritical Brahmans and their scriptures
He was the first to raise his voice against Brahmans in Maharashtra in the 1870s
The urban educated Marathas were his most ardent followers
His Satyashodhak Mandal contained both an elite based conservative trend and a genuine mass-based radicalism
for being an active member of the Anushilan Samiti, the first revolutionary organisation in Bengal
for participating in the Alipur Conspiracy
for attempting to murder Kingsfords, the Chief Presidency Magistrate at Muzaffarpur, who had ordered severe flogging to some young men for minor offences.
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