Mahatma Phule

• Mahatma Jyotirao Phule is known as the father of women's education in modern India
• Mahatma Phule was the greatest social reformer of Maharashtra and India, a revolutionary thinker who analyzed the exploitation of the working class in society and suggested solutions for it
• Mahatma Jyotiba Phule tried his best to get equal rights for men and women in India
• Mahatma Phule is the first leader of social freedom and decided the direction of the development of the oppressed, victimized, and backward classes and worked hard in accordance with it
• The economic thoughts of Mahatma Jyotiba Phule are responsible for bringing about comprehensive economic growth in the country
• Mahatma Phule has made various efforts to create an egalitarian system by rejecting the exploitative system and has organized his ideas through his literature
• Mahatma Phule has called farmers as the cloth of the world, describing them as 'Jagacha Poshinda' or "Feeder of the world"
• Mahatma Jyotirao Phule was conferred the title of Mahatma by Rao Bahadur Wadekar on behalf of the people of Mumbai on 1 May 1888 in a ceremony at Koliwada, Mandvi, Mumbai
• Mahatma Gandhi: '"Log Muje Mahatma Kehete Hai Asli Mahatma oT Jyotiba The" (People say Mahatma to me (Gandhiji) but the real Mahatma is Mahatma Jyotiba Phule) said Mahatma Gandhi from Yerwada Jail in 1932'
• Sayajirao Gaikwad: 'Called Mahatma Phule, "The Booker Washington of Maharashtra"'
• Bharat Ratna, Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar: 'Considered Mahatma Phule as his ideological guru (Teacher)'
• Mahatma Jyotirao Phule's full name is Jyotirao Govinda Phule. He was born on April 1, 1827, in Pune in the Mali, a Shudra caste of Hindu religion
• Jyotirao's mother Chimanabai died when he was a child
• Education was not available to the common people, especially to the backward classes and all women in those days
• Jyotirao completed his education till 1847
• Jyotirao was an independent thinker and felt that the country should become independent
• Jyotirao dedicated his life to revolutionizing the society to establish equality and unity in the society and bringing the backward classes and women into the stream of education and giving them their human rights
• Jyotirao got inspired to do social work from the biographies of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj and George Washington
• While reading Thomas Paine's book "Rights of Man," Jyotirao started working for equal rights of Indian people
• Mahatma Jyotirao Phule first educated his wife
• This incident turned Mahatma Jyotirao Phule's life upside down, leading him to dedicate his life to revolutionizing society to establish equality and unity, bringing backward classes and women into the stream of education, and giving them their human rights
• Jyotirao Phule got inspired to do social work from the biographies of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj and George Washington
• Thomas Paine's book "Rights of Man" had a great impact on Jyotirao Phule's mind, leading him to work for equal rights of Indian people
• Establishing girls' schools


  First educated his wife Savitribai Phule, then started the first girls' school in Pune on 15 January, 1848. Savitribai Phule taught girls with the guidance of Jyotirao Phule. In 1851, two more schools for girls were started, and in 1852, a school for the children of Shudra was started
• His father Govindrao kicked Jyotirao and Savitribai Phule out of the house


  To avoid the wrath of Pantoji and society
• Mahatma Phule and Savitribai Phule continued the important work of education for all sections of society throughout their lives
• Jyotirao Phule attacked bad religious practices and harmful practices in society, aiming to create a new structure of society based on freedom, equality, and rationalism
• Inhumane concepts and practices in India

  • Sati with a dead husband
  • Cutting a widow's hair
  • Forcing her to remain celibate
  • Harassing widows
  • Denying widows the right to remarry
• Efforts to end exploitative practices

  1. Organized a strike of the barber community to stop cutting hairs of widows

  2. Ran a maternity home for abandoned, cheated orphan women in her own home, saving their lives and that of their babies with Savitribai Phule

  3. Nurtured the children at home

  4. Removed the Infanticide Prevention Home and established the Satishodhak Samaj to create a new humanitarian society
• Books of Jyotirao Phule
• Books of Jyotirao Phule

  • Tritiya Ratna -Natak (1855)
  • Powada on Shivajiraje Bhosale (1869)
  • Brahminanche Kasab (1869)
  • Slavery (1873)
  • Shetkaryancha Asud (1883)
  • "Ishara" Warning (1885)
  • Satsar Ank-1
  • Satsar Ank-2
  • Sarvajanik Satyadharma
  • Akhandadi Kavya Rachna
• Inhumane concepts and practices in India

  • Sati with a dead husband
  • Cutting a widow's hair
  • Forcing her to remain celibate
  • Harassing widows
  • Denying widows the right to remarry
• Jyotiba Phule tried to end exploitative practices in India
• Mahatma Phule organized


  1. The strike of the barber community to stop cutting hairs of widows

  2. A maternity home for abandoned, cheated orphan women in her own home, saving their lives and that of their babies with Savitribai Phule

  3. To take care of the babies, they nurtured the children at home

  4. Removed the Infanticide Prevention Home and established the Satishodhak Samaj to create a new humanitarian society
• Books of Jyotirao Phule

  • Tritiya Ratna -Natak (1855)
  • Powada on Shivajiraje Bhosale (1869)
  • Brahminanche Kasab (1869)
  • Slavery (1873)
  • Shetkaryancha Asud (1883)
  • "Ishara" Warning (1885)
  • Satsar Ank-1
  • Satsar Ank-2
  • Sarvajanik Satyadharma
  • Akhandadi Kavya Rachna
• Mahatma Jyotirao Phule first educated his wife Savitribai Phule and then started the first girls' school in Pune on 15 January, 1848
• In 1851 two more schools for girls were started and in 1852 Phule started a school for the children of Shudra


  1. While doing this, they had to contend with society

  2. His father Govindrao kicked Jyotirao and his wife Savitribai Phule out of the house to avoid the wrath of Pantoji and the society

  3. Mahatma Phule and Savitribai Phule continued the important work of education for all sections of society throughout his life
• Mahatma Phule attacked bad religious practices and harmful practices in society
• Efforts were made to create a new structure of society based on freedom, equality, and rationalism
• Books of Jyotirao Phule

  • Tritiya Ratna -Natak (1855)
  • Powada on Shivajiraje Bhosale (1869)
  • Brahminanche Kasab (1869)
  • Slavery (1873)
  • Shetkaryancha Asud (1883)
  • "Ishara" Warning (1885)
  • Satsar Ank-1
  • Satsar Ank-2
  • Sarvajanik Satyadharma
  • Akhandadi Kavya Rachna