• He was the first to raise his voice against Brahmans in Maharashtra in the 1870s

  • Phule through his book Ghulamagiri (1872) and his organization Satyashodhak Mandal, proclaimed the need to save the lower castes from the hypocritical Brahmans and their scriptures

  • His Satyashodhak Mandal contained both an elite based conservative trend and a genuine mass-based radicalism

  • The urban educated Marathas were his most ardent followers


The urban educated Marathas were his most ardent followers