 Peter Friedlander states that Ravidas' hagiographies, though authored long after he died, depict a struggle within the Indian society, where Ravidas' life gives the means to express a variety of social and spiritual themes.At one level, it depicts a struggle between the then prevalent heterodox communities and the orthodox Brahminical tradition.At another level, the legends are an inter-communal, inter-religious struggle with an underlying search and desire for social unity.