Jab Mein Tha Tab Hari Nahin‚ Ab Hari Hai Mein Nahin,
Sab Andhiyara Mit Gaya‚ Jab Deepak Dekhya Mahin

Mahatma Gandhi

Historically the Moolgadi was the source of inspiration for the first people's
resistance against the East India Company Rule. When Warren Hastings came down to Benares (Varanasi) to annex it to the fledging Company Empire in 1781 A.D. much before the famous 1857 revolt. The rebellious Benares citizens who had the blessings of the Moolgadi hounded him out. Similarly, the Moolgadi became a prominent source of inspiration again for the first known non-cooperation movement of the people of Benares as early as 1810 A.D. when the unjust house tax was levied on them, making the people of Benares aware of the path of resistance was inspired by Pooran Saheb (d. 1826 A.D.) the 16th Acharya of Moolgadi. Most of the freedom fighters, either the activists engaged in the non-violent Gandhiite movement or the revolutionaries have been inspired by the Moolgadi and quite often revolutionaries used to get shelter in its campus while hiding in underground avoiding the Colonial Police. One of the noted events during freedom struggle was visit of Mahatma Gandhi to the Kabirchaura Moolgadi which is reported in Hindi daily "Aaj" of 3rd August 1934. Gandhi who was then on campaign against untouchability practiced in hierarchical caste society told the audience that his mother was a Kabirpanthi and he believed in the message of equality and spirituality of Kabir Saheb. While on trial in a colonial court Gandhi wrote in his vocation column "weaver peasant". This is the continuing tradition of Kabir Saheb that brought Gandhi around to spinning wheel as the mascot against Imperialism.
The Moolgadi is the beacon-light for temporal as well as spiritual life of masses; it has transcended the sectarian boundaries as well as stratification and differentiation in Indian society and the perennial conflict between saguna and nirguna, the noted traditional ills of a varnashrami-dharma-dictated society. And also it is the Moolgadi in the Indian history that could gather courage to challenge the millennia-old conservative mode of life set for denying spiritual deliverance to as much as 85% of population mostly living in villages following the inflexible dictates of a hierarchical caste society. Thus it emerged as the most dynamic powerhouse of spiritualism, composite culture and as a source of building of an egalitarian society in the annals of Indian history of the last 600 years.