Bhakti saints each named utopian egalitarian cities in their poetry

Evidence

For Tukaram, the city was Pandharpur, where everybody was equal, where the headman had to work as hard as everyone else, where people danced and sang and mingled freely. For Kabir, it was Premnagar, the City of Love. — Ambedkar, B R, Annihilation of Caste_ The Annotated…, 122

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Hindu nationalism recruits diverse Bhakti movements into one essentialized spirituality — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory: Classes, Nations, Literatures, 1148; Bhakti poets imagined utopian cities where Untouchables faced no segregation — Ambedkar, B R, Annihilation of Caste_ The Annotated…, 118; Anticaste Bhakti poets imagined utopian towns, unlike Gandhi’s village — Ambedkar, B R, Annihilation of Caste_ The Annotated…, 118
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Hindu nationalism recruits diverse Bhakti movements into one essentialized spirituality — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory: Classes, Nations, Literatures, 1148; Bhakti poets imagined utopian cities where Untouchables faced no segregation — Ambedkar, B R, Annihilation of Caste_ The Annotated…, 118; Anticaste Bhakti poets imagined utopian towns, unlike Gandhi’s village — Ambedkar, B R, Annihilation of Caste_ The Annotated…, 118

Broader Connections

• Bhakti poets imagined utopian cities where Untouchables faced no segregation #expands (0.95) — Ambedkar, B R, Annihilation of Caste_ The Annotated…, 118