Caste, conflict, and ideology : Mahatma Jotirao Phule and low caste protest in nineteenth-century western India

Part I. Introduction

1. Low caste protest in nineteenth-century western India

Part II. Religion and Society Under Early British Rule

2. From warrior traditions to nineteenth-century politics: structure, ideology, and identity in the Maratha-kunbi caste complex

3. The crisis of cultural legitimacy: missionaries, reformers, and Hindu society in the mid-nineteenth century

4. The growth of religious reform opinion in western India

Part III. Jotirao Phule and his circle: the emergence of a distinctive radical voice

5. Student radicals in mid-nineteenth-century Maharashtra

6. The Aryan invasions and the origins of caste society

7. Warriors and cultivators: the reinterpretation of popular culture

8. Maratha history as polemic: low caste ideology and political debate in late nineteenth-century Maharashtra Part IV. The Lower Caste Community in Contemporary Society

9. Religious emancipation and political competition

10. Social protest and the construction of a religious ethic

11. Traditional privileges and new skills: Phule's analysis of the nature of Brahman power

12. The Satyashodhak Samaj in the 1870s

Part V. Ideology and the Non-Brahman Movement in the 1880s

13. Phule's polemic in the 1880s: the ideological construction of rural life and labour

14. The non-Brahman movement in the 1880s

15. Epilogue: ideology and politics in nineteenth-century western India