दृढनिश्चयी किसान आंदोलन के पीछे है नई शूद्र चेतना

Kanwal Bharti writes that the RSS wants the Bahujans to get sucked into the struggle for the temple and forget their objective of securing a share in the State. The temple is the best tool for this purpose

In 1882, Jotirao Phule began touring the rural areas outside Pune, getting to know firsthand the plight of the kunbi cultivators, addressing large gatherings and organizing a boycott of Brahmins and moneylenders. The speeches that he wrote for these gatherings later became ‘Cultivator’s Whipcord’

The unity and solidarity across castes in the farmers’ protest can be seen as a rise in Shudra consciousness, which emphasizes the dignity of labour as a philosophical force and which can alter the existing hegemonic relations socially and politically, writes Pallikonda Manikanta