In modern times, the Punjabi Maoist (or Naxalite) revolutionary Dalit poet Sant Ram Udasi, and now his daughter, have challenged the accepted Raja Bhoj - Gangu Teli discourse, portray Gangu Teli as an unwilling victim, coerced and brutalized, and portraying Raja Bhoj as a monster, e.g. the Ballad of Gangu Teli.
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Gangu Teli is a historical or apocryphal figure from the era of the Parmara dynasty of central India, a commoner belonging to the Teli (oil-presser) caste.
There were reports of Jijabai bestowing a plot of land to an oilman or Teli in return for the grant of his daughter-in-law to be buried alive under one of the Panhala towers.
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Narendra Modi, Chief Minister of Gujarat, and a member of the right-wing Hindu nationalist BJP party, belongs to the Teli caste; a remark by Congress Party's Ghulam Nabi Azad, rephrasing Modi's Prime Ministerial ambitions in the light of the ancient quip "Kahan Raja Bhoj, kahan Gangu Teli" has drawn denunciations of casteism by the BJP.
Apart from Goeldner and Godager, the MegaZebra board consists of Sitar Teli from Doughty Hanson, Matthias Hornberger from Kizoo, and Mark Gazecki of the founders.
'Pal' or its variant 'Paul' is also found among some Bengali middle castes like Teli, Kumhar and Sadgop.