How reformer Savitribai Phule’s first biography got written despite a lack of detail about her life
How reformer Savitribai Phule’s first biography got written despite a lack of detail about her life
In Shantabai Bankar’s sketch of the educational pioneer in 1939, an attempt to rekindle memory trumped the availability of factual information. 10 hours ago Anganwadi workers in Maharasthra s Thane don masks of social activist Savitribai Phule to mark her birth anniversary, during a protest to press for demands at the Collectors Office in January 2020. | PTI
On April 11, on the birth anniversary of social reformer Jotirao Phule, Savitribai Phule Pune University republished a short volume by Shantabai Raghunathrao Bankar that has come to be recognised as the first biography of Savitribai Phule – Jotirao’s wife and a reformer in her own right.
Remembering Satyashodhak Judge P.B. Sawant s Anti-Caste Legacy
While several senior activists, politicians and sociologists gained immensely from Justice Sawant s scholarship, it was the youth who he was particularly keen on with interacting.
Justice P.B. Sawant speaking at a BAMCEF annual convention. Photo: BAMCEF
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Mumbai: Soon after his retirement from the Supreme Court in 1995, Justice P.B. Sawant began his socio-political journey. The annual convention of the All India Backward and Minority Communities Employees Federation (abbreviated as BAMCEF) was the first such public appearance, but not the only one.
While Justice Sawant went on to attend over 15-16 such BAMCEF national conventions, the 2020 convention being the last one, he also remained committed to a wide range of social movements across the state. âAnnihilation of caste was at the heart of such engagements,â recalls D.D. Ambade, national treasurer of BAMCEF.