Born on January 3, 1831 in Naigaon, in the Bombay Presidency of the British era, Savitribai Phule was a teacher and a social reformer who made educating girls a mission of her life. As part of the Satya Shodhak Samaj, she worked hard for women’s emancipation, then an unheard-of social issue. Along with her husband Jyotiba Phule, Savitribai was the pioneer of women’s education in India. They started the first school for girls in 1848 in Bhidewada, Poona, at the residence of Tatyasaheb Bhide.