Open AccessSAVITRIBAI PHULE THE FIRST LADY TEACHER AND SOCIAL REFORMER IN NINETEENTH CENTURY OF INDIA
Author(s) -
Sourav Chandra Garaian,
Subir Sen
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
epra international journal of multidisciplinary research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2455-3662
DOI - 10.36713/epra7439
Subject(s) - girl , caste , marathi , empowerment , power (physics) , gender studies , sociology , history , law , political science , literature , psychology , art , developmental psychology , physics , quantum mechanics
Savitribai Phule was an important social reformer and leading character of the then Maharashtra. She was the first lady teacher of first girl’s school in India. Not only a teacher she was a great social reformer. In nineteenth century she was a power source of woman education and woman empowerment. She was also a founder of modern Marathi poetry. At this crisis time she and Jyotirao Phule established a girl’s school with nine students in 1848 at Pune in Bhide Wada and she also taught in this school. She did not stop there, she raised her voice against the practice of child marrage, sati pratha and child widows for the betterment of the human race and society. At the same time, she promoted a positive attitude towards widow remarriage. She was an idol of Dalit and Mang community like Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar. She also moved against untouchability and rule out the discrimination grounded on caste and gender.