Savitribai Phule's Biography

• • Savitribai Phule was the first female teacher*
    
    
    Savitribai Phule, India's first woman social reformer, is known only as jyotirao phule's wife to all the scholarly intellectuals of the casteist and male-dominated tendencies of the society. But Savitribai was the first female teacher in modern India and was the first woman activist who worked for the education of the oppressed people, especially women. She was a great writer and a leader who worked tirelessly for the emancipation of women. Good speaker.. A poet who waged a pen war against caste and patriarchy. He was a great man who gave up his comforts at a young age and ran schools for shudras and dalits. It is a natural right for men and women to be educated irrespective of caste and creed and that is why everyone should read... Everyone should live equally... Savitribai was the mother of the social revolution. Savitribai's importance in today's and present-day society is immense. Not only did she walk alongside her husband, but she herself was the mother of the social revolution. A leader who overcame many obstacles and emerged as a great creative and inspired woman, she had to bow down to all the forces of caste, class and gender discrimination before her efforts in the 19th century. He conducted extensive campaigns and led many movements. Marriages were held for widows.
    
    
    Savitribai was born on January 3, 1831 in Namgaon, Satara district of Maharashtra. At the age of nine, she married Jyotirao Phule. Savitribai's husband Jyotirao Phule was her first teacher. She was educated and made a social teacher. By 1847, along with her husband, she had started the first school in Pune for girls from the Shudra castes. 
  • The upper and upper castes did not like running this school. Savitri Bai was subjected to harassment and physical assault. On the way to the school, she was pelted with mud, stones were thrown at her and abusive language was used. She would change the saree after going to school and wear a muddy saree when she returned. When someone asked, she would boldly say 'I am performing my duty'. However, one day she was fed up with the daily harassment and one day she broke the cheek of a man. Within a short span of time, their contribution to the educational movement that they carried out without giving up was recognized. A Muslim man had allotted his house to the school. Some people collected books. Celebrities like Morovittal, Walvekar and Deorao helped in the management of the school. In 1851, the school was reopened. She appealed to the people to cooperate for the education and development of girls and for the development of their children. Savitribai gave up her desire to have children and made the world a home and made orphans and children who were born as illegitimate children into her children. Savitribai's role in women's rights in the anti-caste movements in the 19th century cannot be forgotten. Savitribai was the only woman who stood in leadership positions in the social movements of the time. In the struggles as an alternative to the movements in the hands of the Brahminical dominant classes, the shudras were at the forefront of the struggles and made the women conscious. In 1852, she founded a mahila sangha in the name of Mahila Seva Mandal. Various struggles were waged against discrimination against widows and killing of infants in the name of illegitimate children. Orphans and Shudra girls all felt that they were their children. In 1874, a Brahmin widow's child was adopted by the Phules. When a Brahmin widow was pregnant and tried to commit suicide, the Phule couple rescued her and promised to raise her child, named her Yashwant and made her a doctor. Savitribai married a young man who had lost his wife to her friend's child. For the first time in history, a marriage was held without a priest, and Jyotiba Phule, hailed as one of the most remarkable social revolutionaries in the history of India, was supported in every way. Along with her husband, she also endured all the hardships and humiliations. Savitribai remained an ideal companion in the history of the world who walked along with her husband in the life of the movement. Savitribai sacrificed her personal life and dedicated herself to education and girls. There was no fear of clashing with elders for the eradication of social evils. The barbers were made aware that widows would not be beheaded. Orphanages and ashrams were set up for orphaned women and children.
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