On January 3, 2022, the country celebrates India’s first female teacher, Savitribhai Ful. She was an activist who worked for female education in India and urged them to get an education to break free from the shackles of discriminatory practices based on society. Check out more information about Savitribai Phule in her joint bio below.
Check out the various tweets on her birthday below, too.
Savitribhai Phul, a social welfare worker who is considered one of the first female teachers in India, not only preached the importance of education and equality, but lived it. Today, on her 191st birthday, let’s celebrate this crusade for gender justice #MyGovMorningMusings pic.twitter.com/vt6yBqKJsm
– MyGovIndia (@mygovindia)
January 3, 2022
to remember #SavitribaiPhule On her birthday, India’s first female teacher worked tirelessly and devoted her life to empowering women through education and the abolition of gender and caste discrimination. #Amrit Mahutsav pic.twitter.com/GgUlb2nDp8
– Ministry of Culture (MinOfCultureGoI)
January 3, 2022
Savitribai Phule: Biography
| Noun | Savitribai Jyotiba Phule |
| date of Birth | January 3, 1831 |
| husband name | Jyotiba Ful |
| education | teacher training programAmerican Missionary, Cynthia Farrar) |
| children (son) | Yeshwant Bean (adopted) |
Early life: education, marriage, family
Savitribhai was born on the 3rd of January 1831 in the village of Naigaon in the state of Maharashtra. At the time, I was born into a socially backward society in Mali which meant there was no female education. She was illiterate when she married Jyotipa Ful at the age of 9. Jyotipa was thirteen years old at the time and was in third grade.
Savitribai found her way into education because of her forward looking husband Jyotipa Ful who strongly believed in female education to remove social inequalities.
He began to educate his wife at home against the dictates of the family.
Incident That Changed Savitripai Ful’s Life:
When Savitribai was young, she was pulling the pages of an English-language book, when her father caught her red-handed. He snatched the book from her hands and threw it away, telling her not to touch it again. It was only considered the right of upper class men in those days to study. Savitribai that day emphasized learning to read and write no matter what happens.
Savitribai Phule biography: career
She is registered by Jyotiba Phule in Teacher Training Program at Training Institute in Pune. She has already enrolled herself in two teacher training programs – the American Missionary, Cynthia Farrar, in Ahmednagar and at a regular school in Pune. Savitri thereafter went on to become the first principal of any school in India and the first ever female teacher in the country. Her birthday is also celebrated as Balika Din in Maharashtra.
She started teaching a girls’ school in Marathwada in Pune along with Sagunbai who was one of the feminist revolutionaries at the time.
By 1851, Savitribai Phule and Jotiba were running three different girls-only schools in Pune. The three schools combined had more than 150 registered students.
Savitribai Phule Biography: Resistance in Its Job
Savitribai Ful used to carry an extra sari to her school as she was peddled with stones and dirt by upper-class conservative locals as she commuted to her schools to teach.
Phule faced such problems from the upper Brahmin caste in their area as they belonged to the repressed Mali caste and were educated despite this fact.
Finally they had to leave their parents’ home in 1849 after they were blamed for the sin of studying against the Manusmriti and its Brahmanical texts.
Together with her husband, she taught children of various denominations and opened a total of 18 schools. They also opened a care center called Balhatia Pratibandhak Ghirah for rape and pregnancy victims.
Savitribai Phule Biography: Death
Jyotiba and Savitribai had no children. They had an adopted son Yashwant who opened a clinic to work for victims of the bubonic plague. Savitribai Ful died of the same plague that struck her, she breathed her last on March 10, 1897.
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