# Savitribai Phule

> She opened India's first school for girls in 1848 — at a time when teaching a woman to read was considered dangerous, even obscene. The crowds that pelted her with stones and dung on her way to class each morning understood exactly what was at stake.

*Indian social reformer (1831-1897)*

**Canonical URL:** https://fame.am/person/savitribai-phule

## Identity
- **Profile type:** Writer / Author
- **Category:** Writers
- **Country:** India
- **Born:** 1831-01-03
- **Died:** 1897-03-10
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** female

## Bio

Born into the Mali community in 1831, Savitribai was married young and couldn't read. Her husband Jyotirao taught her at home, then sent her for formal teacher training in Pune and Ahilyanagar — making her India's first professionally trained female teacher. In 1848, with Jyotirao and Sagunabai Kshirsagar, she opened a girls' school at Bhidewada in Pune, teaching mathematics, science, and social studies against ferocious opposition. By 1851 they ran three schools with 150 students; eventually eighteen in total. She founded the Mahila Seva Mandal in 1851, co-founded the Satyashodhak Samaj in 1873, and opened an infanticide prevention center for widows. She published two poetry collections, Kavya Phule in 1854 and Bavan Kashi Subhodh Ratnakar in 1892. In March 1897, while nursing a boy through bubonic plague, she contracted it herself and died at sixty-six.

## Fame
- **Popularity score:** 55.4 / 100
- **Momentum:** 2.4 / 100  (trend: STABLE)
- **Historical depth:** 20.7 / 100
- **Now attention:** 13.2 / 100
- **Source confidence:** 60.0 / 100
- **Profile completeness:** 70.0 / 100

## Topics
#Writers, #Writer / Author, #Literature, #Poetry, #19th Century

## Sources
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- [Savitribai Phule](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savitribai_Phule)
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- [સાવિત્રીબાઈ ફુલે](https://gu.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AA%B8%E0%AA%BE%E0%AA%B5%E0%AA%BF%E0%AA%A4%E0%AB%8D%E0%AA%B0%E0%AB%80%E0%AA%AC%E0%AA%BE%E0%AA%88_%E0%AA%AB%E0%AB%81%E0%AA%B2%E0%AB%87)
- [Savitribai Phule](https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savitribai_Phule)
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- [Savitribai Phule](https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savitribai_Phule)
- [Savitribai Phule](https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savitribai_Phule)
- [ସାବିତ୍ରୀବାଈ ଫୁଲେ](https://or.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AC%B8%E0%AC%BE%E0%AC%AC%E0%AC%BF%E0%AC%A4%E0%AD%8D%E0%AC%B0%E0%AD%80%E0%AC%AC%E0%AC%BE%E0%AC%88_%E0%AC%AB%E0%AD%81%E0%AC%B2%E0%AD%87)
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