Savitribai Phule Jayanti 2023: Quotes, Images, and Inspiring Messages From the Pioneer of India’s feminist movement

January 3rd is celebrated as the birth anniversary of Savitribai Phule. The day is celebrated by recognizing her efforts, achievements as well as contributions made towards our education system. She became one of fewer women who upgraded woman’s rights in our country. She has also contributed towards the abolishing of partiality faced by people based on gender or caste. This year would mark her 192 birth anniversary. This day is used to acknowledge the efforts of Savitribai Phule towards education and women’s right in our nation.

Best Savitribai Phule Jayanti 2023 Images, Quotes, and Inspiring Messages

The year 1876 has gone, but the famine has not – it stays in most horrendous forms here. The people are dying. The animals are dying, falling on the ground.

We shall overcome and success will be ours in the future. The future belongs to us.

My husband is a god-like man. He is beyond comparison in this world, nobody can equal him.

Who was Savitribai Phule?

She was an avid poet, educationist and an Indian reformer based in Maharastra in pre-Independent India. Born in the village of Naigaon on 3rd January 1931 in Maharastra. She was the eldest daughter of Khandoji and Lakshmi Nevase Patil. Apart from being a social reformer, she was an eminent poet as well as an author. She went on to publish Bavan Kashi Subodh Ratnakar in 1892 and Kavya Phule in 1854. Savitribai Phule also wrote a short poem named-  ‘Go, Get Education, where she is encouraging those who have been held back to get a proper education. 

Based on what she has experienced in her own life struggles, she became a feminist and was regarded as the mother of Indian feminism. She was behind the establishment of Mahila Seva Mandal which highlights the issues regarding women’s rights. She made a place that is free from any caste or gender barriers or any other form of discrimination. 

She also opened a small shelter only for women named- ‘Home for the prevention of Infanticide’ a place where women can safely deliver the baby and can leave them in the shelter for adoption if they can’t afford to raise them