Short Biography of SabitriBai Phule

 Short Biography of SabitriBai Phule

Short Biography of SabitriBai Phule

Sabitribai Phule was an important figure in the social reform movement in Maharashtra.  He was simultaneously a social reformer, an educator, a writer, and a poet.  She is considered to be the first teacher in India.  She advocates for equal rights for women in India.  Made remarkable progress.  She is also known as the mother of Indian feminism. 

 She campaigned for the eradication of racial and gender discrimination.  Sabitribai was born in January 1831 in the village of Naigaon in the Satara district of Maharashtra.  She was the youngest daughter of mother Lakshmi and father Khandoji Nevase Patil.  But at the age of nine, he married Jyotirao Phule who was thirteen years old.  

She was illiterate until his marriage, and Jyotirao taught him to read.  Gradually, she began training for teaching, opened a school for girls, and taught Western subjects with her husband.  For such a bold endeavor he had to face the opposition of the conservative and upper castes.  Often people threw dung, mud and stones at him.  He used to wear two sarees when he went to school.  However, Sabitrabai continued to increase the number of schools, despite protests.  

Sabitribai warned women about her rights, self-esteem and social problems by creating a women's service zone and staged a Bhandari strike in Mumbai to protest the widow's beheading.  He was childless, but adopted the son of a Brahmin widow.  Her son, Yashwantrai, grew up and became a doctor.  Sabitribai was assisting his son while he was treating a 1897 Bubonic Plague epidemic patient.  She died of a plague on March 10, 1897.

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