She is considered to be the pioneer of India's feminist movement.
Savitribai and her husband founded one of the early modern Indian girls' school in Pune, at Bhide wada in 1848.
The curriculum at Bhide Wada School included traditional western curriculum of mathematics, science, and social
studies.
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.
She always tried to educate the people and her husband Jyotiba Phule always supported and helped her. He was
also the social reformer and an educationalist.
If we talk about the education of Savitribai Phule, then she was illiterate till the time of her marriage. Her primary
education was done at home with the help of her husband. And after her primary education, She enrolled herself in
two teacher's training programs; the first was at institution run by an American missionary, Cynthia Farrar,
in Ahmednagar, and the second course was at a Normal School in Pune.
Savitribai Phule built a total of 18 schools. She worked in various social activities like the emancipation and
education of women, the eradication of gender bias and untouchability. She also opened many NGO,s.
The British government always tried to stop her works. Because due to education people it was difficult to control
the people.
