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Jyotiba Phule gave a blueprint for Viksit Bharat

Jyotiba Phule went beyond parochial constructs to empower the masses to reclaim their sovereignty by seeking and rejecting slavery. This discourse was later taken up by BR Ambedkar.

I dedicate this small book to the good people of the United States… as a token of admiration for their noble, disinterested, and self-sacrificing devotion in the cause of Negro slavery.”

The above quote is taken from Jyotiba Phule’s book, Gulamgiri (1873), which foregrounds him as a person and connects the issues of inequality in his habitus across the ocean. He is a globalist and an organic intellectual in the truest sense and the pioneer of a Satayashodhak Modernity standpoint. But along with his global aptitude and attitude, Phule’s writings and words aspired to carve a ‘Third Eye.’ 

It was a powerful agency for cultivating minds to critically question the events around them. This third eye is the enhancement of people’s ability to understand, analyse, and see the ‘Truth’, and to understand the dynamics of power and knowledge. It was envisioned to democratise the power and share it among the Shudra-Atishudras. 

We here try to craft a portrait of Phule and his interventions, using the idea of the third eye in the context of water, making it a tool of political and social democracy in light of his unending quest to reclaim humanity.

His water vision........

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