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Not Identity but Reciprocity: Reading Dharma in JotibÄ Phule

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  • Anagha Ingole

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The article establishes JotibÄ Phule’s SÄ rwajanik Satya Dharma Pustak as an inter-textual commentary by recovering an inter-textual context to be able to unpack his conception of dharma. It reads the development of JotibÄ â€™s ‘ Satyadharma ’ as a theoretical response to the three dominant registers of dharma read as restorative, replacing and reformative. In raising such challenges, the article shows that JotibÄ inaugurates a particular strand of non-Brahmin way of thinking that seeks reasoning from within the immanent world. A world which is not desacralized but where values are present for us to develop a reciprocal and incipient egalitarian human sociality—thereby arguing for human sociality itself as a generative site of norms and of dharma.

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  • Anagha Ingole, 2025. "Not Identity but Reciprocity: Reading Dharma in JotibÄ Phule," Studies in Indian Politics, , vol. 13(1), pages 8-22, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:indpol:v:13:y:2025:i:1:p:8-22
    DOI: 10.1177/23210230251324719
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