Acknowledgements; Notes on translations and area under study, with map;
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; Bibliographic note; Bibliography;
Glossary; Index.
