Fatima Sheikh: India's first Muslim Woman Teacher
On 9th January, 2022, Google honoured Fatima Sheikh, a reformer and educationist, with a doodle on its homepage on her 191st birth anniversary.
About Fatima Sheikh
- She was an Indian educator and social reformer, who was a colleague of the social reformers Jyotirao Phule and Savitribai Phule.
- She is widely considered to be India’s first Muslim woman teacher.
- She met great resistance from the dominant classes who attempted to humiliate those involved in the Satyashodhak movement.
- Sheikh met Savitribai Phule while both were enrolled at a teacher training institution run by Cynthia Farrar, an American missionary.
- Sheikh, with social reformers Jyotirao and Savitribai Phule, ....
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