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Social reformers are individuals who actively challenge and seek to change societal norms and structures that perpetuate inequality and injustice. Their work addresses systemic issues such as caste discrimination, gender bias, economic disparity, and access to education and healthcare.
Savitribai Phule (pronunciation ⓘ; 3 January 1831 – 10 March 1897) was an Indian teacher, social reformer, and poet who was the first female teacher in India. [5] Along with her husband, Jyotiba Phule, in Maharashtra, she played a vital role in improving women's rights in India. She is considered to be the pioneer of India's feminist movement.
The status of women in India has been subject to many great changes over the past few millennia. With a decline in their status from the ancient to medieval times ...
Jyotirao Phule (11 April 1827 – 28 November 1890), also known as Jyotiba Phule, was an Indian social activist, businessman, anti-caste social reformer and writer from Maharashtra.
In 1910, she founded the Bharat Stree Mahamandal (All India Women's Organization), [3] which is regarded by many historians as the first All-Indian organization for women. [7] With several branches around the country, it promoted education and vocational training for women without consideration of class, caste and religion.
The efforts of Bengali reformers included abolishing sati, which was a widow's death by burning on her husband's funeral pyre, [3] [20] abolishing the custom of child marriage, abolishing the disfiguring of widows, introducing the marriage of upper caste Hindu widows, promoting women's education, obtaining legal rights for women to own property ...
The government polytechnic in Kamrup, Guwahati [14] is named after her [7] and the Tezpur University established a women's centre in her name, Chandraprabha Saikiani Center for Women's Studies (CSCWS) in 2009 for promoting women's education in the Northeast India. [15] Her life has been documented in four biographies:
Sharda Mehta (26 June 1882 – 13 November 1970) was an Indian social worker, proponent of women's education, and a Gujarati writer. Born to a family of social reformers, she was one of the first two women graduates in the modern-day Gujarat state of India. [1] She established institutes for women's education and women's welfare.