Arguably, it focused on liberating the oppressed masses through education and social movements. It did not place the onus on Brahmins as other reformist Brahmin-led movements of the time did. The Brahmo Samaj, Prarthana Samaj and later Arya Samaj believed in the sacredness of the Gita, which Phule viewed as merely a political treatise designed to keep the oppressed masses within the shackles of the religious order.
