India’s first Muslim female teacher Fatima Sheikh is in Google Doodle on 9 January. (Image: Google.com)
Sunday’s Google Doodle: Along with fellow pioneers and social reformers Jyotirao and Savitribai Phule, Sheikh co-founded the Swadeshi Library, one of India’s first schools for girls, in 1848.
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Google is celebrating the 191st birth anniversary of Indian educator and feminist icon Fatima Shaikh, widely regarded as India’s first Muslim female teacher, with a doodle for her. Along with fellow pioneers and social reformers Jyotirao and Savitribai Phule, Sheikh co-founded the Swadeshi Library in 1848, one of India’s first schools for girls.
Fatima was born on this day in 1831 in Pune. She lived with her brother Usman, and the siblings opened their home to Phule after the couple was evicted for attempting to educate people from the lower castes. Swadeshi library opened under the roof of sheikhs.
Here, Savitribai Phule and Fatima Sheikh taught marginalized communities of Dalit and Muslim women and children who were denied education on the basis of class, religion or gender.
Phule’s efforts to provide opportunities for education to those born in the lower castes came to be known as the Satyashodhak Samaj (Satyashodhak Samaj) movement. As a lifelong champion of this movement for equality, Sheikh went door-to-door inviting Dalits from his community to learn in the Swadeshi library and escape the rigors of the caste system.
He faced heavy resistance from the dominant classes who tried to humiliate those involved in the Satyashodhak movement, but Shaikh and his allies stood firm.
Although Sheikh’s story has historically been overlooked, the Indian government shed new light on his achievements in 2014 by displaying his profile in Urdu textbooks alongside other leading Indian teachers.
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