Sheikh Fatima Birth Anniversary Today

Academics want the Karnataka govt to educate the younger generation about Fatima Sheikh

Hubballi: In 1848, social reformer Savitribai Phule began the first school for young ladies in Quite a while in a house in Pune, which had a place with Usman Sheik. Among the people who were along the edge of this undying reformer was Usman's sister Fatima Sheik, who was the main Muslim lady to enter the showing calling in India – Savitribai holds the differentiation of being the principal lady educator in the country. While Savitribai's introduction to the world commemoration is praised on January 3, activists are asking the public authority to remember the tradition of Fatima, who is accepted to have been brought into the world on January 9.

Arun Joladkudligi, aide educator at Karnataka Folklore University in Gotgodi, Haveri, told TOI, "There was a lot of resistance to Savitribai Phule's arrangements to teach young ladies. It was Usman Sheik, an inhabitant of Ganj Peth in Pune, who welcomed Savitribai and her significant other Jyotiba Phule to begin the school in his home. His more youthful sister Fatima, who was accomplished, began educating at the school. Her sibling remained by her when Fatima was confronted with obstruction from the heads of her local area. Fatima persuaded guardians in the Muslim people group to send their young ladies to school. The connection between the two families was the image of solidarity among the Dalit and minority networks in the nineteenth century."

Bringing up that the public authority in Maharashtra had remembered a short illustration for Fatima in its Bala Bharati coursebook in 2014, Joladkudligi approached the Karnataka government to instruct the more youthful age about her inheritance.

K Sharifa, a Bengaluru-based artist, called attention to the letters composed by Savitribai to her significant other Jyotiba, who was profuse in her recognition of Fatima. "It is amazing that Fatima is missing on the recorded guide. It is a long time since the passing of the Phule couple. Fatima's introduction to the world commemoration should be praised too," Sharifa said.

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