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Seeking Begumpura : the social vision of anticaste intellectuals /

The bhakti radical Ravidas (c 1450–1520), calling himself a ‘tanner now set free’, was the first to envision an Indian utopia in his song “Begumpura”—a modern casteless, classless, tax-free city without sorrow. This was in contrast to the dystopia of the brahmanical kaliyuga. Anticaste intelle...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Omvedt, Gail
Format: Printed Book
Language:English
Published: New Delhi : Navayana, 2016.
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University of Calicut

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Call Number: 305.51220954 GAI/S
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