Begumpura (“land without sorrow”) is a stateless, classless, casteless society imagined by poet Guru Ravidas in his poem written around 500 years ago in India. It was possibly the first image of an anarchist utopia in Indian literature. It became the guiding light for anti-caste intellectuals for imagining the society that they aspire to create. The Poem The regal realm with the sorrowless name...
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