Question

Jyotiba Phule, popularly known as Baba Phule, was a social reformer in Maharashtra. Which of the following is not true about him.

• A. He was the first to raise his voice against Brahmans in Maharashtra in the 1870.
• B. Phule through his book Gulamagiri (1872) and his organization Satyashodhak Mandal, proclaimed the need to save the lowers castes from the hypocritical Brahmans and their scriptures
• C. His Satyashodhak Mandal contained both an elite based conservative trend and a genuine mass-based radicalism
• D. The urban educated Marathas were his most ardent followers

Answer 1

The correct option is D The urban educated Marathas were his most ardent followers

Jyotiba Phule founded Satya Shodhak Samaj to build a new society based on truth and equality. Phule wrote several books like “Gulamgiri”, attacking caste system which he equated with slavery. He developed his own ideas about the discrimination in caste society and he set out to attack the claim of the Brahmin’s that they were superior to others. He and his wife, Savitribai Phule started a school for girls of the Mahar and Maang castes which were considered untouchable.