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.