Sant Ravidas, known by various other names i.e., Guru Ravidas, Rohidasa, Ramadas, Rahdesa, Rab Das and Rav Das, was a contemporary to socio-religious reformer Sant Kabir. Founder of the Ravidasia sect, Ravidas was a highly intellectual thinker, a poet, philosopher, traveler, a pacifist, theosophist, a humanist, and above all a towering crusader of social justice. Like, Gautam Buddha, he adopted peaceful means to eliminate the oppressive and exploitative Brahminical caste hierarchy. Moreover, he was the most influential Bhakti saint in the northern India. His strong dedication to the cause of upliftment of the downtrodden can be gauged from his visualization of an Ideal State called as Begumpura where all the citizens are entitled to social, political, cultural, and spiritual rights irrespective of their different identities. Some scholars have argued that rather than sticking to the notion of God and Aaradhana, his Bani (hymns) reflected the life and struggles of socially and econom