Pioneer in providing education for girls and ostracized portions of society.
First female teacher in India (1848) and opened a school for girls with her husband, Jyotiba Phule.
In 1853, Savitribai and Jyotiba established an education society that opened more schools for girls and women from all classes, in surrounding villages.
Oppressed classes were forbidden from drinking water from the common village well. Jyotiba and Savitribai dug a well in their backyard for them to drink water from. This move caused a furore in 1868.
She went on to establish a shelter (1864) for destitute women and played a crucial role in grooming Jyotiba Phule’s pioneering institution, Satyasodhak Samaj, (1873) that fought for equality of all classes.
Her life is heralded as a beacon of women’s rights in India. She is often referred to as the mother of Indian feminism.
In 1873, Savitribai started the practice of Satyasodhak Marriage, where couples took an oath of education and equality.
During the bubonic plague of Maharashtra in 1897, she opened a clinic for plague victims in Hadapsar, Pune.
She wrote Kavya Phule, Bhavan Kashisubodh Ratnakar and Go get education
