Not Identity but Reciprocity: Reading Dharma in JotibÄ Phule

Anagha Ingole

Studies in Indian Politics, 2025, vol. 13, issue 1, 8-22

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: archival research; interpretation of texts and documents; political idea; qualitative and quantitative traditions (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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DOI: 10.1177/23210230251324719

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