India celebrates the 194Th birth anniversary of the first women teacher, Savitribai Phule.
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| Our earnest tribute to Savitribai Phule, India's first woman teacher, on her 194th birth anniversary. |
All the educated and enlightened people must be observed this day.
She was born in - Satara District, Naigao, Maharashtra. Father - Khandoji Neose Patil. Mata-Lakshibai. Marriage - 1840 (age 9) to Jyotiba Phule. Jyotiba Phule started educating his uneducated wife at home. At that time girls' education was forbidden in the society. Jyoti also took help from the Christian Missionary School. After that she started thinking about teaching other girls. And Savitribai took responsibility for that education.
A Historic Day in Women's Education in India 15th May 1848 – Girls' School was established in Poona (at the age of 17) at Tatt Saheb Vide's house, Videwara, Poona. Brahmin socialists did not accept.
1849 - Jyotiba Phule was evicted from home. Usman Sheikh of Pune gave shelter. He again forwarded his sister Fatima Sheikh. Fatima Sheikh is the first woman teacher among Muslim women in India (Another teacher named Sagunabai Kshirsagar is the cousin of Jyotiba Phule.) 1852- At that time many schools were running under the efforts of the Phule couple. The British government extended a helping hand.
Outcaste widows arranged to shelter pregnant Brahmin women.
Social reformer Savitribai led a strike against the beheading of widows by barbers. He arranged the education of the people of untouchable society.
In 1854, Savitribai published two books of poetry. He died at the age of 64 while fighting the plague.
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