Explain the following statement with reasons. - Mahatma Phule conducted a strike of barbers.
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"Mahatma Phule had launched first ever campaign for widow-remarriage along with Vishnu Shastri Bapat. He took many steps to get the public support for this.
He travelled from place to place for this motive. He ran child-care home for children of widows with his wife.
The couple even adopted the son of a Brahmin widow.
He took a bold step of encouraging the barbers to boycott tonsuring the heads of widows, which was the practice forced on Brahmin widows specially.
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"Mahatma Phule had launched first ever campaign for widow-remarriage along with Vishnu Shastri Bapat. He took many steps to get the public support for this.
He travelled from place to place for this motive. He ran child-care home for children of widows with his wife.
The couple even adopted the son of a Brahmin widow.
He took a bold step of encouraging the barbers to boycott tonsuring the heads of widows, which was the practice forced on Brahmin