Do you know who india’s first teacher is? Do you know which teacher won the world with the dream of transforming the society? Do you know the female icon Savitribai Phule, considered the first teacher of modern India?
Savitribai was born on January 3, 1831, in Naigaon village of Maharashtra’s Satara district, Phule, a Dalit woman, khandoji Navse and Laxmi’s Auras. Despite all the barriers of society, she later worked as a writer, a teacher and a carrier of social transformation.
Savitribai enrolled in a school in Pune for teacher training and later travelled with her husband to Bhidewada to set up the first school for girls. In 1848, Savitribai served as its headmistress. A large number of people say that when he walked to school, upper caste men pelted stones at him and threw dung at him.
But he never allowed his soul to get hurt. He was the barrier homemaker. Also known as the “House of Prevention of Child Murder”. This house provides shelter as an facility for sexually abused children, pregnant widows and victims of rape.
She founded the Mahila Sewa Mandal in 1852 to advocate for women’s rights. The strike began to stand up against the practice of shaving Brahmin widows. In recognition of many such social reform works the British government finally recognized him as the state’s top educationist in 1852. In 1854, his first book of poems titled “Kavya” was released. In 1892 he launched Baban Kashi Subodh Ratnakar, also known as the “Ocean of Pure Gems”.