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Seeking Begumpura by Gail Omvedt

Seeking Begumpura

Gail Omvedt

304 pages first pub 2008 (view editions)

nonfiction history politics challenging informative reflective fast-paced
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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...

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