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Savitribai Phule (pronunciation ⓘ; 3 January 1831 – 10 March 1897) was an Indian teacher, social reformer, and poet who was the first female teacher in India. [5] Along with her husband, Jyotiba Phule, in Maharashtra, she played a vital role in improving women's rights in India. She is considered to be the pioneer of India's feminist movement.
Fatima Sheikh was a 19th century Indian educator and social reformer, who was a colleague of the social reformers Jyotiba Phule and Savitribai Phule. [2] [3] Sheikh is widely regarded as India's first Muslim woman teacher and is remembered for her role in educating and empowering women and marginalized communities in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
He was the first to start journalism in Marathi with the first newspaper in this language named Darpan in the early days of British Rule in India. [1] Thus he is known as the Father of Marathi journalism. January 6 is not the birth anniversary of Balshastri Jambhekar. On January 6, 1832, he started Darpan, the first newspaper in Marathi.
Marathi Hindu people follow a partially Patronymic naming system. For example, it is customary to associate the father's name with the given name. In the case of married women, the husband's name is associated with the given name. Therefore, the constituents of a Marathi name as given name /first name, father/husband, family name /surname. For ...
Baba Padmanji Mule, better known as Baba Padmanji (1831 - 29 August 1906) was an Indian writer, novelist, religious preacher and Protestant Christian reformer in the 19th-century Bombay Presidency, who is known for contributing to Marathi literature. [1]
Often called Acharya (Teacher in Sanskrit), he is best known for the Bhoodan Movement. He is considered as National Teacher of India and the spiritual successor of Mahatma Gandhi. He was an eminent philosopher. He translated the Bhagavad Gita into the Marathi language by him with the title Geetai (meaning 'Mother Gīta' in Marathi). [2]
Tilak started two weeklies, Kesari ("The Lion") in Marathi and Mahratta in English (sometimes referred as 'Maratha' in Academic Study Books) in 1880–1881 with Gopal Ganesh Agarkar as the first editor. [61] By this he was recognized as 'awakener of India', as Kesari later became a daily and continues publication to this day.
Carey also published the first dictionary of Marathi in devanagari script. The most comprehensive Marathi–English dictionary was compiled by Captain James Thomas Molesworth and Major Thomas Candy in 1831. The book is still in print nearly two centuries after its publication. [103] [104] Molesworth also worked on standardizing Marathi.