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HOW DID JYOTI RAO PHULE ORGUE HIGHER CASTE WERE NOT SUPERIOR TO OTHERS

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a. One of the prominent “low-caste” leaders was Jyotirao Phule.

b.He set out to attack the Brahmans’ claim that they were superior to others since they were Aryans.

c. He argued that the Aryans were foreigners, who came from outside the subcontinent, and defeated and subjugated the true children of the country – those who had lived here from before the coming of the Aryans.

d. As the Aryans established their dominance, they began looking at the defeated population the low caste people as inferior.

e. He argued that the upper caste has no right to land and power which actually belonged to the indigenous population.


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