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... on the was no consistency to the truth of satyashodh. How shudra-­atishudra shetkari (cultivator).3 could Phule claim to have found the truth when These concerns may serve to enrich the exist- he trafficked in so many disparate idioms, rewrote ing historical scholarship on Phule and his legacy. history to suit...

... “untouchables” or Atishudras were literally outcastes, outside the four- varna system). 11 After Shivaji's death, the empire became increasingly controlled by the subsequent kings' Brahman advisers, known as Peshwas. In the British colonial period, the oppressively Brahmanical nature of the erstwhile Peshwa...

... frames the interwar peregrina- tion, jatibhed, and to justify the destitute living tions of Har Dayal and Tawadu Pang in the essays conditions of the lower castes. Later, Phule will by Elam and Chen, respectively. This awkward rela- challenge the shudra-­atishudra (the lower castes tionship...

.... reconfgured. such as B. R. Ambedkar posited the categories Ambedkar’s contemporary approach to consti- of Dalit and shudra-­atishudra as political terms tutionalism that was, as Anupama...