World Famous Philosophers, Sages/Saints and Great Kings.

Faculty of Peace Studies.

“No Peace, No Life. Know Peace, Know Life.”

Taught By – Prof. Ashish Joshi

 Group Activity

Shubham Gavhane (18)

Aditya Janve TL (23)
Prasanna Jagdale (21)
Ashish Surve (63)
Swapnil Sabane (54)
 Personality :

Jyotirao Phule and Savitribai Phule.

 Early life..
✣ Jyotirao Govindrao Phule (11 April 1827 – 28 November 1890)
was an Indian social activist, thinker, anti-caste social reformer
and writer from Maharashtra.
✣ Jyotirao Phule was born in Pune in 1827 to a family that belonged
to the Mali caste.
✣ The Malis traditionally worked as fruit and vegetable growers: in
the four-fold varna system of caste hierarchy, they were placed
within the Shudras, or the lowest-ranking group.
✣ Phule's family, previously named Gorhe, had its origins in the
village of Katgun, near the town of Satara.
 Early life and the path to social activism..
✣ The Mali community did not make room for much by education, and
after attending primary school to learn the basics of reading, writing,
and arithmetic, Jyotirao was withdrawn from school.
✣ Phule completed his English schooling in 1847. As was customary, he
was married young, at the age of 13, to a girl of his own community,
chosen by his father.
✣ The turning point in his life was in 1848, when he attended the
wedding of a Brahmin friend. Phule participated in the customary
marriage procession, but was later rebuked and insulted by his friend's
parents for doing that. They told him that he being from a Shudra caste
should have had the sense to keep away from that ceremony. This
incident profoundly affected Phule on the injustice of the caste system.
 Social activism : Education
✣ In 1848, aged 21, Phule visited a girls' school in Ahmednagar, run by Christian
missionaries. It was also in 1848 that he read Thomas Paine's book Rights of
Man and developed a keen sense of social justice.
✣ He realized that exploited castes and women were at a disadvantage in Indian
society, and also that education of these sections was vital to their emancipation.
✣ To this end and in the same year, Phule first taught reading and writing to his
wife, Savitribai, and then the couple started the first indigenously-run school for
girls in Pune. The conservative upper caste society of Pune didn't approve of his
work. But many Indians and Europeans helped him generously.
~ Took inspiration from
✣ Conservatives in Pune also forced his own family and community to ostracize this book of Thomas
them. During this period, their friend Usman Sheikh and his sister Fatima Sheikh Paine(One of the
provided them with a roof over their heads. They also helped to start the school Founding Father of the
United States)
on their premises.
 Social activism: Women welfare
✣ Phule watched how untouchables were not permitted to pollute anyone with
their shadows and that they had to attach a broom to their backs to wipe the
path on which they had traveled.
✣ He saw young widows shaving their heads, refraining from any sort of joy in
their life.
✣ He made the decision to educate women by witnessing all these social evils
that encouraged inequality.
✣ Phule couple started orphanage home for the pregnant widows in 1863 so that
they can give birth to their children and live without the fear of society.
✣ Phule tried to eliminate the stigma of social untouchability surrounding the
exploited castes by opening his house and the use of his water-well to the
members of the exploited castes.
Satyashodhak Samaj and Occupation
 Legacy.

Mahatma Phule Wada, Pune. This is Bhidewada, the place where Phule The Prime Minister Shri Atal Mahatma Phule on
the place where Mahatma Jotirao started first girl’s school Bihari Vajpayee unveiled the a 1977 stamp of
Phule stayed with his wife Savitribai statue of Mahatma Jyotirao India
Phule for a certain period in his life.  Phule at Parliament House in
New Delhi on 3 December
2003.
 Published works

Ballad: Chhatrapati Shetkarayacha Aasud Sarvajaneek

Slavery/Gulamgiri
Shivajiraje Bhonsale (Cultivator's Whipcord), Satyadharma
Yancha Powada (1869) July 1881 (1873)
Pustak(1891)
Savitribai Phule
✣
Early life..
Savitribai Phule (3 January 1831 – 10 March 1897) was an Indian social
reformer, educationalist, and poet from Maharashtra.
✣ She is regarded as the first female teacher of India.
✣ Along with her husband, Jyotirao Phule, she played an important and vital role
in improving women's rights in India.
✣ She is regarded as the mother of Indian feminism. Phule and her husband
founded one of the first Indian girls' school in Pune, at Bhide wada in 1848.
✣ She worked to abolish the discrimination and unfair treatment of people based
on caste and gender.
✣ She is regarded as an important figure of the social reform movement in
Maharashtra.
✣ A philanthropist and an educationist, Phule was also a prolific Marathi writer.
 Education..
✣ Savitribai Phule was the eldest daughter of Lakshmi and Khandoji Nevase
Patil, both of whom belonged to the Mali Community.
✣ Savitribai and Jotirao had no children of their own.It is said that they
adopted Yashawantrao, a son born to a Brahmin widow.
✣ At the time of her marriage Savitribai was an illiterate. Jyotirao educated
Savitribai at their home.
✣ She also enrolled herself in two teacher's training programs. The first was at
institution run by an American missionary, Cynthia Farrar, in Ahmednagar.
The second course was at a Normal School in Pune. Given her training,
Savitribai may have been the first Indian woman teacher and headmistress.
✣ Savitribai's birthdate, i.e. 3 January, is celebrated as Balika Din in the whole
of Maharashtra, especially in girl's schools.
 Social activism.
✣ Savitribai and Jyotirao Phule along with Sagunabai started their own school at
Bhide Wada. Bhide Wada was the home of Tatya Saheb Bhide, who was inspired
by the work that the trio was doing.
✣ By the end of 1851, Savitribai and Jyotirao Phule were running three different
schools for girls in Pune. Combined, the three schools had approximately one
hundred and fifty students enrolled.
✣ Unfortunately, Savitribai and Jyotirao Phule's success came with much resistance
from the local community with conservative views.
✣ Savitribai often travelled to her school carrying an extra sari because she would
be assailed by her conservative opposition with stones, dung, and verbal abuse.
✣ The Phule's faced such strong opposition from the conservative and dominant
castes(Brahmin) because they belonged to the oppressed caste (Mali). The Shudra
castes had been denied education for thousands of years.
✣
Activism in death.
Savitribai and her adopted son, Yashwant, opened a clinic to treat those
affected by the worldwide Third Pandemic of the bubonic plague when it
appeared in the area around Nalasopara in 1897.
✣ The clinic was established at stern outskirts of Pune, in an area free of
infection.
✣ Unfortunately, Savitribai and Jyotirao Phule's success came with much
resistance from the local community with conservative views.
✣ Savitribai died a heroic death trying to save the son of Pandurang Babaji
Gaekwad. Upon learning that Gaekwad's son had contracted the Plague in the
Mahar settlement outside of Mundhwa, Savitribai Phule rushed to his side and
carried him on her back to the hospital.
✣ In the process, Savitribai Phule caught the Plague and died on 10 March 1897.
 Poetry and recognitions

On 3 January 2017, the search

In honor of Savitribai Phule,
engine Google marked the 186th
Kavya Phule - 1854, University of Pune was
anniversary of the birth of
poetry renamed to Savitribai Phule
Savitribai Phule with a Google
Pune University
doodle.
 Lack of education lead to lack of
wisdom,
विद्येविना मती गेली।
Which leads to lack of morals,
  मतीविना नीती गेली।
Thus, it leads to lack of progress,
  नीतीविना गती गेली।
Then it leads to lack of money,
  गतीविना वित्त गेले।
And again it leads to the oppression
  वित्ताविना शूद्र खचले।
of the lower classes,
  इतके अनर्थ एका अविद्येने केले 
See what state of the society one lack
of education can cause!
Thank You.