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Last update:22 July, 2021 Savitribai Phule was one of the most important women in the history of India. Indeed, she was considered a real threat thanks to her struggle against the caste system. She also defended the rights for education of the Dalit children, the “untouchables”. The caste system is one of social stratification. The level to which people belong can only be determined by their birth. Therefore, it’s a solid and immovable system. In fact, it’s virtually impossible for people to change their position within it. This system is the lynchpin of the Savitribai Phule wasn’t alone in her struggle. Her husband, Early life Savitribai Phule was born in Maharashtra in 1831. She married at the age of nine when her husband was twelve. It was an arranged child marriage. Both of them belonged to the Dalits. However, some of their family members were affluent farmers. At the insistence of family acquaintances, her husband had managed to finish his high school studies. He became a businessman and municipal contractor. Although the couple never had children, they did adopt the son of a Brahmin widow. Dalit schools Savitribai and her husband soon became activists against the injustices committed against women. They also protested against the social caste system in general. Unfortunately, the poor education of non-caste children had a serious impact on their future and condemned them to sexual and labor exploitation. For this reason, the couple opened a school for girls. However...

(Written by Rosalind O’Hanlon) The month of January is a particularly special time in the long history of popular struggle for education in India. On January 3, we celebrate the birth anniversary of Savitribai Phule, the lion-hearted pioneer of education for women and the socially marginalised, whose name now graces one of Maharashtra’s premier universities, Savitribai Phule University in Pune. On January 9, we salute what tradition marks as the birth anniversary of Savitribai’s fellow pioneer teacher in Pune, Fatima Sheikh. Much of their history — particularly that of Savitribai — is now familiar to us. But it is still difficult to think of this pair without a thrill of wonder at their courage and breadth of vision. For, when the power of colonial rule was at its mid-19th century height, and the hold of conservative attitudes amongst many communities was yet to be seriously challenged, these two women stood forth to argue the case for education as a right that all should enjoy, not only the privileged few. And they did so not in one of the great cosmopolitan centres of colonial India, but in the city of Many elements of their stories are now well known to historians. As the wife of Jotirao Phule, the great social reformer and campaigner against casteism, the young Savitribai joined her husband in establishing schools in Pune for girls, Dalits and other disadvantaged communities. Jotirao’s friend, Mian Usman Sheikh, a fellow resident in the city’s busy trading quarter of G...