இந்தியாவின்முதல் பெண் ஆசிரியை

The 1800s was a bad time for women to be born in India.They would be married off even before puberty, education was out of bounds and because of mortality rates, most of them would become widows before they reached adulthood.....

If it was a tough time to be a woman, it was almost impossible to be a woman who wanted to reform the society. But Savitribai Phule was the first woman who led the campaign to make women’s lives better.

She knew what it was like to be in a child marriage as she was married off at the tender age of 9 years.

She was married off to Jyotiba Phule, a 13-year-old boy. She experienced child marriage first hand.

But luckily Jyotiba Phule turned out to be a   ...

 progressive man. He taught Savitribai to read and write, to the point that Savitribai would write poems.

She understood what Jyotiba had done, and realized the power of teaching. She knew that if she wanted to change the lives of the other women in India, she would have to educate them. 

And thus she became India’s first woman teacher and open the first school for girls in Bhide Wada in Pune.In her life, she opened 18 schools for women. She also became the first woman in India to become a headmistress.

She even opened a well inside her house so that “untouchables” could come and draw water

Because the zamindars who had wells would not let the untouchables from drawing water from their wells. This was a momentous decision since Savitribai was a daughter of a Patil (head of a village).

She faced a lot of hate and abuse from the orthodox society of that time.

And in the end, she died serving the people.

Thanks. source;storypick