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THE TRUTH SEEKER

SATYASHODHAK

By Jalamkar NILESH

Drama - Completed 2024

- Year of production
- 2024
- Genres
- Drama
- Countries
- INDIA
- Languages
- MARATHI
- Duration
- 110 mn
- Director(s)
- Jalamkar NILESH
- Synopsis
- Satyashodhak or The Truth Seeker is about Mahatma Jyotirao Phule, an Indian social activist, anti-caste social reformer, writer and businessman. His work extended to many fields, including eradication of untouchability and the caste system as well as educating women and oppressed caste people. He and his wife, Savitribai Phule, were pioneers of women's education in India having started the first school for girls in 1848 in Pune. He, along with his followers, formed the Satyashodhak Samaj (Society of Truth Seekers) to attain equal rights for people from lower castes. People from all religions and castes could become a part of this association which worked for the upliftment of the oppressed classes. Phule is regarded as an important figure in the social reform movement. The honorific Mahātmā (Sanskrit: "great-souled", "venerable"), was first applied to him in 1888 at a special program honoring him in Mumbai, India.