The Hindu Widows’ Remarriage Act, 1856, also Act XV, 1856, enacted on 25 July 1856, legalized the remarriage of Hindu widows in all jurisdictions of India under East India Company rule was drafted by Lord Dalhousie.
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
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