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Savitribai Phule: Teacher and Reformer: 3 key ideas
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- IDEA 1 OF 3
India's first women teachers
Savitribai taught girls in Pune despite public abuse, and is remembered as one of India's first women teachers.
Courage in the face of ridicule is part of reform.
- IDEA 2 OF 3
Care for the vulnerable
She ran shelters for widows and pregnant women at risk, and cared for plague victims, dying of plague herself in 1897.
Service meant personal risk, not distant charity.
- IDEA 3 OF 3
Poetry as protest
Her poems urged women and the oppressed to seek education and self-respect.
Simple writing can carry powerful social messages.
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