SLAVERY
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Price: Rs. 135. "Mahatma Phule - The Greatest Shudra of Modern India who made the lower classes of Hindus Conscious of their Slavery to the higher classes and who preached the gospel that for India social the higher classes and who preached the gospel that for India social democracy was more vital than Independence from foreign rule". - Dr. B.R. Ambedkar "My object in writing the present volume is not only to tell my sudra brethren how they have been duped by the Brahmins, but also to open the eyes of Government to that pernicious system of high class education which has hitherto been so persistently followed and which statemen like sir George Campbell, the present Lieutenant Governor of Bengal, with broad and Universal sympathies, are finding to be highly mischievous and pernicious to the interests of Government. I sincerely hope that Government will ere long see the error of their ways, trust less to writers or men who look through high class spectacles and take the glory into their own hands of emancipating my Sudra brethren from the trammels of bondage which the Brahmins have woven round them like the coils of serpent. It is no less the duty of such of my Sudra brethren as have received any education to place before Government the true state of their fellowmen and endeavour to the best of their power to emancipate them selves from Brahmin thraldom. Let there be schools for the Sudra in every Village; but away with all Brahmin School-masters! The Sudras are the life and sinews of the country, and it is to them alone and not to the Brahmins that the Government must ever look to tide them over their difficulties, financial as well as political." Jotirao phule