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In this episode, Main Bhi Muslim’s producer and host, Mariyam Haider, speaks with Dr Tahera Shaikh, Pune-based researcher and author who has spent a key part of her research life documenting the lives and contributions of Savitribai Phule and Fatima Sheikh, 19th century India’s social and educational reformers.
In this episode, Dr Tahera shares her findings and understanding of Fatima Sheikh’s role in contributing towards Savitribai and Jyotirao Phule’s causes, while at the same time, breaking down prejudices that plagued the then Muslim and larger Indian community. We discuss their comradeship, its uniqueness within the pantheon of India’s social reformers, and how their approaches towards making education accessible across all segments of the society should continue to be adopted within modern India’s schooling.
This interview has been edited for clarity. English transcript below:
Mariyam Haider, Host: Hello Dr Tahera Shaikh. Thank you for joining us at Main Bhi Muslim’s podcast. Thank you for sparing time to talk about a great personality. I welcome you to Main Bhi Muslim.
Tahera Shaikh, Guest: Thank you Mariyam Haider. Thank you for ha
India’s Oft-Forgotten Feminist Icon Fatima Sheikh: Pioneers of Modern Women’s Education in Indian Subcontinent
in Published Volumes
Author:
Abdullah
1Research Scholar
Department of History
Vidyasagar University
Rangamati,Midnapore,West Bengal,India
Email:abdullahhistory@
Abstract:: An almost forgotten name in the history of Indian women&#;s education is Fatima Sheikh. Savitri Bai Phule stands out as the pioneer of Modern Indian women&#;s education, another identity of hers is that she is the wife of social reformer Mahatma Jyotirao Phule. Few know the woman who made Savitribai&#;s mission possible, she was Fatima Sheikh. She is also known as the first Muslim woman teacher in the Indian subcontinent. She was also a social reformer, who fought throughout her life to overcome the caste system and provide education to women and children of the desirable sections of the society. Fatima Sheikh is not discussed in history. Historians of India have never been given her due, neither have they been included in any syllabus nor have any books been published about her. Although the discussion of the history of Indian women&#;s modern education is incomplete without Fatima
In news&#; st birthday of Fatima Sheikh was observed on 9th January
A brief note on Fatima Sheikh-
- She was India’s first Muslim woman teacher and was a colleague of Jyotiba Phule and his wife Savitribai Phule.
- She was born on 9th January in Pune and was considered to be a feminist icon in pre-independent India.
- She co-founded the Indigenous Library in which was one of India’s first schools for girls along with the Phules.
- In Pune, Sheikh along with her brother Usman offered their home to the Phules, who had been evicted for attempting to educate people from the lower castes.
- Along with Savitribai Phule, she taught communities of marginalized Dalit and Muslim women and children who were denied education based on class, religion, or gender.
- The efforts that she put in, working alongside the Phules, to provide opportunities to those born in the lower caste, got recognised as the Satyashodhak Samaj (Truthseekers’ Society) movement.
- In , Sheikh’s achievements were featured by the government in the form of a profile in Urdu textbooks, along with other such exemplary and resolute educators of her time.
Jyotiba Phule-
- He was born in the Mali family
India's oft-forgotten feminist icon Fatima Sheikh: Pioneers of modern Women's Education in Indian subcontinent
JHSR Journal of Historical Studies and Research ISSN: Volume 3, Number 1 (January - April , ),PP Open Access, Peer-reviewed, Refereed Journal Email:@ _____________________________________________________________________________________ India’s Oft-Forgotten Feminist Icon Fatima Sheikh: Pioneers of Modern Women’s Education in Indian Subcontinent Abdullah1 1 Research Scholar Department of History Vidyasagar University Rangamati,Midnapore,West Bengal,India Email Id: abdullahhistory@ ________________________________________________________________ Abstract:An almost forgotten name in the history of Indian women's education is Fatima Sheikh. Savitri Bai Phule stands out as the pioneer of Modern Indian women's education, another identity of hers is that she is the wife of social reformer Mahatma Jyotirao Phule. Few know the woman who made Savitribai's mission possible, she was Fatima Sheikh. She is also known as the first Muslim woman teacher in the Indian subcontinent. She was also a social reformer, who fought throughout her life to overcome the caste s
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