Modern Indian History
Who said: "Let the pilgrims congregate at the beginning of the Gregorian calendar year. It should be Dhanu 16-17 in Malayalam calendar. Let the pilgrims observe 10 days self-purification according to Sri Buddha's principles of five purities - body, food, mind, word, and deed called as Pancha Dharma"
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
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
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