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- ↑ Socio religious reform movements in India, Kenneth W. Jones and Gordon Johnson, p139-140, ISBN 0-521-24986-4
- ↑ From Plassey to Partition, Sekhara Bandyopadhya, p153, ISBN 81-250-2596-0
- ↑ From Plassey to Partition, Sekhara Bandyopadhya, p 153, ISBN 81-250-2596-0
- ↑ O'Hanlon, Rosalind (22 August 2002). Caste, Conflict and Ideology: Mahatma Jotirao Phule and Low Caste Protest in Nineteenth-Century Western India. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-52308-0.
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