An Analysis upon Contribution of Mahatma Phule towards Welfare of Backward Class Women Empowerment and Emancipation

Championing Social Equality and Women's Rights

Abstract

Jyotiba took up the problem of caste as well as gender. He revolted against the unjust caste system below which huge numbers of people had endured for hundreds of years. The revolt of his against the caste system integrated religious and social reform with equality. He emerged as the unmodified leader of the depressed courses in Maharashtra and was recognized as a leader of downtrodden category of all over India. He was affected by American thinker Thomas Paine's opinions of Rights of Man. Exploitation of females as well as underprivileged category as well as safety of human rights these problems and the logical humanist therapy of theirs was the agenda of the philosophy of Phule.