{"id":18945,"date":"2024-01-04T04:52:36","date_gmt":"2024-01-03T23:22:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=18945"},"modified":"2026-01-03T11:53:58","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T06:23:58","slug":"savitribai-phule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/savitribai-phule\/","title":{"rendered":"Who was Savitribai Phule?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Savitribai Phule<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Born in a small village in Satara district of\u00a0Maharashtra on January 3, 1831, Savitribai Phule was an Indian\u00a0social reformer, poet, and powerful voice in the Indian freedom struggle.<\/li>\n<li>She was an\u00a0active participant in the\u00a0women&#8217;s liberation movement.<\/li>\n<li>Savitribai trained at Ms. Farar&#8217;s Institution in Ahmednagar and at Ms. Mitchell&#8217;s school in Pune to become the\u00a0first female teacher in India.<\/li>\n<li>Savitribai Phule\u00a0and her husband, Jyotirao Phule (one of the most famous social reformers in Maharashtra),\u00a0opened India&#8217;s first school for women in Pune in 1848.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Despite resistance from society,\u00a0by 1851, Phule was running 18 schools for children of\u00a0different castes, with a strength of 150 girls.<\/li>\n<li>They also established two educational trusts: the\u00a0Native Female School,\u00a0Pune, and the\u00a0Society for Promoting the Education of Mahars, Mangs,\u00a0and others from downtrodden castes.<\/li>\n<li>In 1852, the British government acknowledged the great work of the Phule family in the field of education and honored Savitribai\u00a0by naming her the best teacher.<\/li>\n<li>She, along with her husband, Jyotirao Phule, actively\u00a0worked against the caste-based discrimination\u00a0prevalent in society.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>She played a crucial role in grooming Jyotirao Phule\u2019s pioneering institution,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/satyashodhak-samaj\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Satyashodhak Samaj<\/strong><\/a> (1873) that\u00a0fought\u00a0for equality of all classes.<\/li>\n<li>In 1852, she\u00a0initiated the Mahila Seva Mandal, a platform aimed at\u00a0creating awareness about women\u2019s rights.\u00a0Notably, this platform brought together members of all castes, challenging entrenched social hierarchies.<\/li>\n<li>Savitribai Phule was a\u00a0vocal advocate for the rights of widows. She campaigned against the prevailing customs that forced widows into a life of deprivation and for the right of widows to remarry.<\/li>\n<li>Savitribai\u00a0organized a barbers&#8217; strike in both Mumbai and Pune to demonstrate their\u00a0opposition to the practice of shaving the heads of widows.<\/li>\n<li>Savitribai also fought\u00a0against dowry\u00a0and\u00a0other oppressive social customs.<\/li>\n<li>In 1863,\u00a0Jyotirao and Savitribai began Balhatya Pratibandhak Griha, India&#8217;s first home prohibiting infanticide, helping pregnant Brahmin widows and rape victims.<\/li>\n<li>Savitribai Phule\u00a0wrote two books,\u00a0Kavya Phule\u00a0in 1854 and\u00a0Bavan Kashi Subodh Ratnakar\u00a0in 1892, which\u00a0are collections of her poems.<\/li>\n<li>She wrote the\u00a0famous poem &#8216;Go Get Education&#8217; to encourage backward and oppressed class people to get an education.<\/li>\n<li>Her\u00a0birth anniversary, celebrated as Savitribai Phule Jayanti, is a day to commemorate her legacy and contributions to education and social equality.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiatoday.in\/information\/story\/savitribai-phule-jayanti-celebrating-the-lady-who-lit-the-lamp-of-learning-2483498-2024-01-03\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Savitribai Phule Jayanti: Celebrating the lady who lit the lamp of learning<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Savitribai Phule was an Indian social reformer, poet, and powerful voice in the Indian freedom struggle. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":80731,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-18945","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18945\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}