Savitribai Jyotirao Phule, an Indian poet, educator, and social reformer, was instrumental in the nineteenth-century growth of women's education and empowerment. Savitribai and her husband Jyotirao Phule, who was one of the few literate women in those days, founded the first girl's school in Pune in Bhide Wada. She worked tirelessly to educate and emancipate young widows, opposed child marriage and sati pratha, and advocated for widow remarriage. She is recognised as a prominent actor…
