Savitribai Phule#Savitribai
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#Savitribai
Savitribai Phule · 3 January 1831 – 10 March 1897
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Who this is
Social reform and Telugu letters — journalist, novelist, satirist, schoolmaster, and organizer of the widow-remarriage movement in the Telugu country.
“On 11 December 1881 a schoolmaster in Rajahmundry married a teenage widow to a former student while constables guarded the doors from a stone-throwing crowd — and then he did it again, and again, for thirty years, spending everything he had, until Telugu people gave his lifetime a name: their renaissance.”
The big idea, in the book's words:
“One man with a press, a school and a stubborn conscience can restart a language and re-argue a society. He wrote the first Telugu novel, built modern Telugu prose, and then spent his fortune and his safety marrying widows whom his society had condemned to living death.”
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