Seeking Begumpura By Gail Omvedt, A brief history of the Bhakti movement The world over, the image of the singer songwriter has been a powerful one Bards, who functioned as chroniclers and satirists mocking the meaningless conventions of their times, and who sometimes
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 brahmanical kaliyuga Anticaste intellectuals in India posited utopias much before Thomas More, in 1516, articulated a RThe 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 brahmanical kaliyuga Anticaste intellectuals in India posited utopias much before Thomas More, in 1516, articulated a Renaissance humanist version.Gail Omvedt, in this study, focuses on the worldviews of subaltern visionaries spanning five centuries Chokhamela, Janabai, Kabir, Ravidas, Tukaram, the Kartabhajas, Phule, Iyothee Thass, Pandita Ramabai, Periyar and Ambedkar She charts the development of their utopian visions and the socioeconomic characteristics of the societies conceived through this long period.
should have been less partisan i think