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  • Posted: SwB Team
  • Dated: 21 December , 2011
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Graphic Lib

Srividya Natarajan, who teaches English and Creative Writing atKing’s University College and Aparajita Ninan, a design intern withNavayana have authored (or should it be sketched) Jotirao Govindrao Phule’s 1873 book Gulamgiri (Slavery) a scathing and wittyattack on brahmanism and the slavery of India’s ‘lower’ castes that itengendered. Unlike Indian nationalists, Phule (1827-1890) saw the British aspeople who could tame the local elite—the brahmans who wielded power simply onthe basis of birth. Inspired by Thomas Paine’s Rights of Man and the ideals of Enlightenment philosophers, Phulemounted a critique of the vedas as idle fantasies of the brahman mind. With theobjective of liberating the sudras and atisudras, he founded the SatyashodakSamaj (Society of Truthseekers).
Phule dedicated Slavery ‘to the good people ofthe United States as a token of admiration for their sublime, disinterested andself-sacrificing devotion in the cause of Negro Slavery.’ Written in the formof a dialogue between Dhondiba and Jotiba—reminiscent of Buddha’s suttas, of Socrates’ dialogues—Slavery traces the history of brahmandomination in India, and examines the motives for and objectives of the crueland inhuman laws framed by the brahmans.
This revolutionary text remains relevant today,and given Phule’s rather graphic imagination lends itself almost naturally tographic art. Natarajan and Ninan also weave in the story of Savitribai, Jotiba’swife and partner in his struggles, who started a school for girls in Pune in1848, despite social opprobrium.
A Gardener in the Wasteland: Jotiba Phule’s fight for Liberty is in our Dalit Studies section,  128 pages,  Rs 220, ISBN: 9788189059460

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