Savitribai Jyotirao Phule, born on 3 January 1831 at Naigaon, Maharashtra, British India
Parents: Khandoji Navse Patil, LaxmiBai
Savitribai Jyotirao Phule was an Indian social reformer and poet.
Along with her husband, Jyotirao Phule, she played an important role in improving women's rights in India during British rule.
Phule along with her husband founded the first women's school at Bhide Wada in Pune in 1848.
she was married to 12-year-old Jyotirao Phule at the age of nine.
She is regarded as an important figure of the Social Reform Movement in Maharashtra.
Her family were wealthy farmers.
She found the treatment of the untouchables problematic and opened a well in her house in 1868 so that, people who were refused drinking water by the upper caste can use it.
Savitribai and her son, Yashwantrao Gupta, opened a clinic to treat those affected by the worldwide Third Pandemic of the bubonic plague when it appeared in the area around Nallasopara in 1897.
Two books of her poems were published posthumously, Kavya Phule (1934) and Bavan Kashi Subodh Ratnakar (1982)
In 2015, the University of Pune was renamed as Savitribai Phule Pune University in her honour
Savitribai Phule wrote many poems against discrimination and advised to get educated.
Savitribai Phule is credited with laying the foundation of education opportunities for women in India and played a major role in improving women's rights in the country during the British Raj.
In her honour, the University of Pune was renamed as Savitribai Phule University in 2014.
She died from it on 10 March 1897 while serving a plague patient
January 3 2017 Google India Celebrate her Birthday with Doodle
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