A Comparison Between Women and Men
Tarabai Shinde, ed. and trans. Rosalind O'Hanlon
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Tarabai Shinde's fierce 1882 Marathi attack on men's double standards, with Rosalind O'Hanlon's study of its world.
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India1848 onward
Savitribai and Jyotirao Phule opened one of the first schools for girls in Pune in 1848, facing abuse from upper-caste neighbours. Often called India's first woman teacher, Savitribai also ran a shelter for pregnant widows and wrote poetry against caste.
Savitribai Phule; Jyotirao Phule; Fatima Sheikh, who taught alongside her.
Education for girls and for Dalit and Bahujan children; an end to caste and to the persecution of widows.
Tarabai Shinde, ed. and trans. Rosalind O'Hanlon
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Tarabai Shinde's fierce 1882 Marathi attack on men's double standards, with Rosalind O'Hanlon's study of its world.