Modern Indian History
On account of his differences with Mahatma Gandhi, Subhas Bose resigned the Presidentship of the Congress (April 1939) and organised a new party called
His Satyashodhak Mandal contained both an elite based conservative trend and a genuine mass-based radicalism
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