Phule’s life and thought, a constitutional project

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Jotirao Phule, born April 11, 1827, was a social reformer who reimagined society's foundations on equality and dignity principles. Influenced by Thomas Paine's Rights of Man in 1847, Phule established schools for women and oppressed castes, opened public wells to untouchables, and advocated widow remarriage. His 1873 work Gulamgiri positioned caste oppression within transnational emancipation history. Phule's constitutional imagination addressed education access, agrarian exploitation, and state governance failures until his 1890 death.

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