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Ravidas

रविदास

c. 1450 – 1520Banaras (Varanasi)Sant tradition

A leather-worker whose verses dream a city, Begumpura, where there is no second and no third — no caste, no taxation, no sorrow. Forty of his hymns are preserved in the Adi Granth.

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