Get latest articles and stories on India at LatestLY. Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday paid tributes to Savitribai Phule, a pioneer in women s education, and Velu Nachiyar, a Tamil queen lauded for waging war with the colonial empire in the 18th century, on their birth anniversaries. India News | ATPM Modi Pays Tributes to Savitribai Phule, Velu Nachiyar on Their Birth Anniversaries.
The Nation pays homage to social reformer and the pioneer of the Indian feminist movement- Savithribai Phule on her 192 birth anniversary today (January 3). Wife of Jyotiba Phule one of India’s great social activists, thinker, anti-caste social reformer, and writer from Maharashtra, who believed in women’s emancipation. She followed in her husband’s footsteps to take up the