Jyothi ba pule

jyotibaphule

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2. JYOTI BHA PULE

3. Jyotirao Govindrao Phule WAS born on 11 April 1827. he was an Indian social activist for the Dalit people, a thinker , anti-caste social reformer and writer from Maharashtra . Jotirao Govindrao Phule was born into a virtually illiterate family that belonged to the Mali caste of gardeners and vegetable farmers. The original surname of the family had been Gorhay ( गोऱ्हे ) .The ancestral village of the family was Katgun , in present day Khatav taluk of Satara District (now in Maharashtra state).

4. Since Phule's father and two uncles served as florists under the last of the Peshwas , whose patronage they enjoyed. the family came to be known as ' Phule ' (flower-man). Phule's father, Govindrao , carried on the family business along with his brothers. His mother, Chimnabai , died when he was only nine months old, and he had one elder brother. The Mali community did not set much store by education, and after attending primary school to learn the basics of reading, writing and arithmetic, Phule was withdrawn from school. He joined the menfolk of his family at work, both in the shop and the farm. However, a Christian convert from the same Mali caste as Phule , recognised his intelligence and persuaded Phule's father to allow Phule to attend the local Scottish Mission's High School run by Murray Mitchell. Phule completed his English schooling in 1847. As per custom, he was married young, at the age of 13, to a girl of his own community, chosen by his father.

5. The turning point in his life was in 1848, when he attended the wedding of a friend, who was a Brahmin . Phule participated in the customary marriage procession, but was later rebuked and insulted by his friend's parents for doing that. They told him that he being from a lower caste should have had the sense to keep away from that ceremony. This incident profoundly affected Phule on the injustice of the caste system.

6. In 1848, Jyotiba visited the first girl's school in Ahmadnagar , run by Christian missionaries. It was also in 1848 that Young Jyotiba read Thomas Paine 's book Rights of Man (1791), and developed a keen sense of social justice. He realised that lower castes and women were at a disadvantage in Indian society, and also that education of these sections was vital to their emancipation. To this end, Jyotirao at the age of 22 first taught reading and writing to his wife, Savitribai , and then the couple started the first indigenously run school for girls in Pune in 1848, for which he was forced to leave his parental home.

7. When they were ostracised by their family and community, their friend Usman Sheikh and his sister Fatima Sheikh provided them their home to stay and helped them to start the very first girl's school in their premises. Later they started schools for children from Dalit castes of Mahar and Mang . In 1852, three schools established by Jyotirao were running. Unfortunately, by 1858, they had all stopped.

8. Eleanor Zelliott blames the closure on private European donations drying up due to the Mutiny of 1857 , withdrawal of government support, and Jyotirao resigning from the school management committee because of disagreement on the school curriculum. He championed widow remarriage and started a home for lower and upper caste widows in 1854, as well as a home for new-born infants to prevent female infanticide . Phule tried to eliminate the stigma of social untouchability surrounding the lower castes by opening his house and the use of his water-well to the members of the lower castes.

9. A Note on SATYASHODHAKA SAMAJ the origin ideas and membership of the Satya Shodhak Samaj which founded by Phule and his friends caste fellows and business colleagues in 1873. Phule vision was universal same as Marx's, but he was not satisfied with delivering ideology itself, he tried to execute the same in practice.

10. The aims and objectives of the Satya Shodhak Samaj The Satyashodhak Samaj is founded by some wise Shudra men to the Shudra people from long sustained slavery executed by Brahmans such as Bhats , Joshi priests and others . The Satyashodhak Samaj aimed to spread education among the Shudras to make them aware of their rights and to get them out of influence of the sacred books that were made by the Brahmans for their own survival.

11. The ideology of Satyashodhak Samaj , based on Phule's ideological frame work which urged to unite all Shudra , Ati-Shudra masses, Satyashodhak ideology rejected all kinds of Brahman domination and exploitation on the basis of religion and all religious sources of inequality. This was the most radical content of the Satya Shodhak ideology, which was the heart of non-Brahman movement.

12. Revolting against Brahmanical culture, Satyashodhak ideology dreamed to establish ideal society based on some principles as follows:

13. Faith on one God (creator) Rejection of any kind of intermediary between God and Man. Rejection of caste system and the basic four folded Varna division of society and believing on that man's supremacy is determined by his qualities and not by his caste or. Faith on equality, freedom and brotherhood

14. CONCLUSION

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