Savitri Bai Phule is credited as being the first teacher of India. They achieved this achievement when it was a far-fetched thing to take the education of women, it was not possible to get out of their house. When Savitri Bai used to go to school, people used to stone him, even criticize his husband Jyotirao Phule. But they have been able to overcome every difficulty. Her husband Jyotirao also supported. Let me tell you his 10 achievements of Savitri Bai on her 122nd death anniversary
Savitribai Phule, together with her husband, opened the girls’ school in Pune in 1848. This is considered the first school of girls in the country.
Phule couple opened 18 schools in the country The British East India Company also honoured their contribution.
Savitribai Phule was the Principal in this school. Fatima Sheikh also used to teach in this school. This school was open to girls of all races. This was the first time that Dalit girls were going to school.
Savitribai Phule had to face tremendous opposition from the women of Pune for the initiative to teach girls. When she used to go to school, the women of Pune used to throw dung and stones on them because they thought that girls were working against Savitribai religion. She used to carry a pair of cloth with her, and after reaching the school, she used to change clothes that were dirty with mud.
Savitribai also opened the well of her house for the dalits. That was a very big thing at that time.
Savitribai opened a shelter for pregnant widows, where they could produce their child. It was on them that they did not obey those children. By that time, getting pregnant especially of upper castes was a big stigma and therefore they would throw their child often. Savitribai Phule arranged for the children to raise their children. Such a child became the heir of the Yashwant Phule family.
By that time, widow women had hair shaving arrangements. Savitribai raised the voice against this inhuman practice and organized the people of the Nari fraternity and staged a protest on this issue in Pune that they will not defile the widows.
After the death of his husband Jyotiba Phule, who had started to call Mahatma Phule, Savitrifule took over the work of Satyashodhak Samaj and continued her work of social consciousness.
Her poetry collection, struggling with race and patriarchy, was printed. She has written four books. When the plague spread in Pune, Savitribai Phule went on to serve the patients. During this time, she became a plague and died in 1897.
