Bahujan nayak: Savitribai Phule Biography in short

Savitribai phule

Savitribai Phule

Savitrivai Phule was born on January 3, 1831 in the vaillage of Naigaon in Satara District, Maharashtra. In a farming family to Khandoji Nevesh Patil and Lakshmi as their eldest daughter.
Girls in those days were married off erly, so following the prevalent customs, the nine year old Savitrivai was wedded to 12 years old Jyotirao Phule in 1840. Jyotirao wet on to become a thinker, writer, social activist and anti-caste social reformer.
She took training at Ms Farar’s Institution in Ahmednagar. Savitribai’s education started after her marriage. It was her husband who taught her to read and write after he saw her eagerness to learn and educate herself. She cleared third and fourth year examination from a normal school and became passionate about teaching.
After completing her teacher’s edication, Savitribai Phule started teaching girls at the Maharwada in Pune. She did so alongside Sagunabai who was a revolutionary feminist as well as a mentor to Jyotirao

The fisr indigenously-run school for girls in Pune ( at that time Poona ) was started by jyotirao and Saitribai in 1848.
By the end of 1851. Savitribai and Jotirao Phuke were running three different schools for girls in Pune. Combined the three shools had approximately one hundred and fifty students enrolled.
Savitribai became the first teacher of the school. Jyotirao and Savitribai later started schools for children from the Mang and Mahar castes, who were regarded as untouchables.

She also started the Mahila Seva Mandal with the objective of creating awareness among women regarding their rights, dignity and other social issues.
In the 1850s, Savitribai and Jyotirao Phule established two educational trusts. They were entitled; the Native Female School, Pune and the Society for Promoting the Education of Mahars, Mangs, and Etceteras
All the three schools run by the Phules were closed by 1858, Undeterred by the circumstances Jyotirao and Savitribai along with Fatima Sheikh, took charge of edication people from the oppressed communities as well.
Over the years, Savitribai opened 18 shools and taught children from different casted. Savitribai and Fatima Sheikh began teaching women as well as other people from downtrodden castes.

In 1863, Jyotirao and Savitribai also started a cate center called “Balhatya Pratibandhak Griha” possible the first ever infanticide prohibition home founded in India.
While Jyotirao advocated widow remarriage, Savitribai worked tirelessly against social evils like child marriage and sati pratha.
She was also associated with a social reform society called “ Satyashodhak Samaj” founded by Jyotirao on September 24, 1873 in Pune.

Savitribai worked as head of its women’s section and following the demise of her husband on November 28, 1890, she became the chairperson of the samaj.
Her adopted son Yashwantrao served the people of his area as a doctor. When the worldwide Third Pandemic of the bubonic plague badly affected the area around Nallaspra, Maharastra in 1897.
She contracted the disease while serving the patients and succumbed to it on March 10, 1897.