TY  - BOOK
AU  - Omvedt,Gail
TI  - Seeking Begumpura : the social vision of anticaste intellectuals
SN  - 9788189059453
U1  - 305.51220954 
PY  - 2011///
CY  - New Delhi 
PB  - Navayana
KW  - India
KW  - Hindutva
KW  - Bhakti
KW  - Caste
KW  - casteless soceity
KW  - Social system-India
N2  - The bhakti radical Ravidas (C 1450–1520), calling himself a ‘Tanner now set free’, was the first to envision an Indian utopia in his song “Begumpura”—a modern casteless, classless, tax-free city without sorrow. This was in contrast to the dystopia of the brahmanic Kaliyuga. Rejecting Orientalist, nationalist and Hindu TV a impulses to ‘reinvent’ India, gail Omvedt threads together the world views of subaltern visionaries spanning five centuries—Chokhamela, Janabai, Kabir, Ravidas, Tukaram, the Kartabhajas, Phule, Iyothee Thass, Pandita Ramabai, Periyar, and Ambedkar. These are contrasted with Gandhi’s village utopia of Ram Rajan, Nehru’s hindutva-laced brahmanic socialism and Savarkar’s territorialist Hindu Rashtra. Reason and ecstasy— dnyan and bhakti—pave the road that leads to the promised land
ER  -