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As one ponders, in all the terms that sociology and anthropology can provide, a social system that arranges human beings into pure and impure, and bemoans in moral terms the impregnable fort of the highborn, there comes along in the fourteenth century one such as Chokhamela. Can there be such love in the world is the wondering question that surfaces after a reading of these amazing poems written so long ago. Nothing so clearly brings into focus the tension ...
This volume brings to light the phenomenon of religious voices from the lowest orders of Indian society: Nandanar and Tirupan Alvar in the south; Chokhamela and his entire family in Marathi territory; and most famous of all, Ravidas in the north. Each saint was born untouchable and that fact is essential part of his and her life and song. The essays and the text allow comparison of the thoughts of the saints and also their reception in their language areas. The ...