Modern Indian History
Who said, The Congress is tottering to its fall and one of my greatest ambitions while in India is to assist it to a peaceful demise?
He was the first to raise his voice against Brahmans in Maharashtra in the 1870s
The urban educated Marathas were his most ardent followers
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
His Satyashodhak Mandal contained both an elite based conservative trend and a genuine mass-based radicalism
Mahadji Shinde was associated with controlling the Maratha empire in Gwalior and mainly the part of northern India. His father Ranoji Rao Scindia was the founder of the Scindia dynasty.