Key Points
Savitribai Phule - an Indian social reformer, educationalist, and poet from Maharashtra - passed away on March 10, 1897, battling the bubonic plague...
Hailed as the countrys first modern feminist, Phule was India's first female teacher...
2. Known as the country's first revolutionary feminist, Savitribai learnt reading and writing and soon started teaching girls in Maharwada in Pune with Sagunabai - who was her husband Jyotirao's mentor...
By 1851, Savitribai and Jyotirao Phule were running three schools in Pune with a combined strength of approximately 150 girls - despite resistance from the then society...
In 1863, Jyotirao and Savitribai started the first-ever infanticide prohibition home in India called Balhatya Pratibandhak Griha - which helped pregnant Brahmin widows and rape victims deliver children.. 8. Savitribai also wrote two books - Kavya Phule in 1854 and Bavan Kashi Subodh Ratnakar in 1892 - which are compilations of her poems...
