SAVITRIBAI PHULE A PIONEER IN WOMEN EDUCATION

1. CONTRIBUTION TO SOCIETY

1.1. IMPROVING WOMEN'S RIGHT

1.2. GENDER EQUALITY

1.3. WIDOW REMARRIAGE

1.4. AGAINST CHILD MARRIAGE

1.5. ADVOCATING CHANGES IN CASTE-BASED INDIAN SOCIETY

1.6. UPLIFTMENT OF WOMEN IN TERMS OF EDUCATION

1.7. STARTED FIRST GIRLS SCHOOL

2. RECOGNITION

2.1. AUTHOR & POETESS

2.1.1. KAVYA PHULE IN 1854

2.1.2. BAVAN KASHI SUBODH RATNAKAR IN 1892

2.1.3. JYOTIRAO'S SPEECHES IN 1856

2.2. BY GOVERNEMENT/EDUCATIONISTS

2.2.1. Pune City Corporation created a memorial for her in 1983

2.2.2. In 2015, the University of Pune was renamed as Savitribai Phule Pune University in her honour

2.2.3. On 10 March 1998 a stamp was released by India Post in honour of Phule

2.2.4. In 2020 the Indian Prime Minister paid tribute to her contribution on her birthday

3. STRUGGLE

3.1. People passed lewd remarks

3.2. Pelted stones and threw cow dund

3.3. Faced Financial crunches

3.4. No support from community and family

4. LIFE

4.1. MARRIED AT THE AGE OF 10

4.2. LIVED IN A DALIT MIDDLE CLASS FAMILY

4.3. NO CHILDREN OF THEIR OWN

4.4. ADOPTED A CHILD FROM A BRAHMIN WIDOW

4.5. NO INTIAL FORMAL EDUCATION

4.5.1. EDUCATION WAS IMPARTED BY HER HUSBAND

4.6. LATER DONE TT at Ms. Farar's Institute in Ahmednagar

5. VIRTUES

5.1. GENEROUS

5.2. FULL OF KINDNESS

5.3. COMPASSIONATE

5.4. LOYAL

5.5. SOCIAL REFORMER

5.6. SACRIFICING WOMAN

5.7. HUMANITY

5.8. JUSTICE

5.9. PERSERVERANCE

6. BELIEVED

6.1. Education for all irrespective of Caste and gender

6.2. Education should give one the ability to choose between right and wrong and between truth and untruth in life

6.3. Create spaces where the creativity of boys and girls could bloom

6.3.1. Providing Vocational and practical education

6.4. Equality between men and women