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Savitribhai Jyotirao Phule:

The first female teacher of the first women's school in India, Savitribai Phule was a social reformer who along with her husband, Rashtrapita Jyotirao Phule, played an important role in changing the women’s rights in India. The couple together fought against casteism culture. In the year 1852 she opened a school for the girls of the lower caste.

Phule was born in Naigaon village in Maharashtra to LaxmiBai and Khandoji Navse Patil in the year 1831. She did not know how to read and write as she had never attended school before.

Life was never been easy for Phule as a teacher in the school, she faced oral abuse from all quarters of the village specially the upper caste people who were against setting up school for the girls. During this time, Phule also voiced her views against child marriage and Sati.

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