Seizing their Moment in the Sun Read, Write and Fight
A new book has become an instant bestseller on Amazon, pushing past classics like the autobiographies of Nelson Mandela and Malcolm X.
The Shudras: Vision For a New Path, edited by Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd and Karthik Raja Karuppusamy, and its success in this critical moment sound the awakening of Shudra social forces.
It is these Shudra forces that are in protest all over the country as farmers. There is a rebellious mood among them, as the Union Government is perceived to be acting against food producers.
Fittingly, the book is dedicated ‘to the great Phules, Mahatma Jyotirao and Savitribai, who initiated the Shudra revolutionary movement of Read, Write and Fight for the first time in Indian history’.
Wilkins’ Letters, 1778. Source: http://blog.rarh.in/
Sir Charles Wilkins (1749 – 1836) was an English typographer and Orientalist. He is notable as the creator (assisted by engraver Panchanan Karmakar) of the first Bengali typeface., Source: British Library
While in London about the year 1770, William Bolts required some types for printing in Bengali. Such types were non-existent, and the type foundry of Joseph Jackson was engaged to prepare a font. In I773 or I774 he suddenly left for India, and the types remained behind. Some years later the font, still incomplete, found its way to the establishment of William Caslon III. They were museum pieces