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Describe the contributions of Jyotiba Phule for the upliftment of lower Castes and Women?
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- Jyotiba Phule considered caste system as slavery.
- His book 'Ghulamgiri' focused on the Brahmin domination and the poverty, hardship and distress which the lower castes were then facing.
- Phule strongly felt that all the problems of Dalits could be solved if proper education was provided to them.
- Phule said that the women were superior to men because they "bore children and nursed them".
- Phule established in 1848 one of the first Girls schools in India.
- He set up an orphanage in 1854 to provide shelter to poor widows and their children.
- He also founded a number of schools for girls and the lower castes, i.e., the Mahars and the Mangs.
- He founded the Satya Shodhak Samaj on 24th September, 1873 to mitigate the distress and sufferings of dalits and women.
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