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This is a study of the socioeconomic perspectives of the leading
anticaste intellectuals over a period of five centuries, from the
'early modern' period of the fifteenth to seventeenth centuries
to the end of colonial rule. It focuses on the framework of their
perspectives, their visions, their 'utopias'. In fact, the first
formulation of an Indian version of utopia comes not from elite
literature, but from one of the anticaste intellectuals with a
mass following. The bhakti radical, Sant Ravidas (c. 1450-1520),
was the first to formulate an Indian version of utopia in his
song "Begumpura". Begumpura, the 'city without sorrow', is a
casteless, classless society; a modern society, one without a
mention of temples; an urban society as contrasted with Gandhi's
village utopia of Ram Rajya............

Another book worth acquiring. Gail doesn't fool around, and she
is also a thorough scholar.
She's a leftie, so she might not see Dr. Ambedkar as a solution
to anything, but who knows? 
I must read the book to find out.

Joanna