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Naigaon, the birthplace of Savitribai Phule, lies in which district?Read the answer and worked solution →Who first taught Savitribai Phule to read and write after her marriage?Read the answer and worked solution →India's first girls' school, started in January 1848, stood at which place in Pune?Read the answer and worked solution →In which year did the Phules and Sagunabai begin the first girls' school in Pune?Read the answer and worked solution →Which body did Savitribai Phule set up to raise awareness of women's rights?Read the answer and worked solution →Balhatya Pratibandhak Griha, run by the Phules, mainly served which group?Read the answer and worked solution →Who is called the first Muslim woman teacher of India and worked with Savitribai?Read the answer and worked solution →Who was Jyotirao Phule's paternal aunt and a mentor to the Phules?Read the answer and worked solution →Which poetry collection did Savitribai Phule publish in 1854?Read the answer and worked solution →What caused the death of Savitribai Phule in 1897?Read the answer and worked solution →In 2015 the University of Pune was renamed in honour of which reformer?Read the answer and worked solution →Savitribai Phule is widely regarded as the first Indian what?Read the answer and worked solution →Why did Savitribai often carry an extra sari when she went to teach?Read the answer and worked solution →Savitribai campaigned against which social practice besides infanticide?Read the answer and worked solution →Which university's faculty examined Ramabai before granting her the titles Pandita and Sarasvati?Read the answer and worked solution →Who taught Pandita Ramabai Sanskrit at home in her childhood?Read the answer and worked solution →Ramabai was orphaned at 16 during which calamity?Read the answer and worked solution →How many women delegates attended the 1889 Indian National Congress session, Ramabai being one?Read the answer and worked solution →In 1882 Ramabai gave evidence on women's education before which body?Read the answer and worked solution →Which first book by Ramabai funded her 1883 trip to Britain?Read the answer and worked solution →Why was Ramabai rejected from medical programmes in Britain?Read the answer and worked solution →In which country did Ramabai convert to Christianity in the early 1880s?Read the answer and worked solution →Ramabai's relative and the first female Indian doctor was whom?Read the answer and worked solution →Which school for child widows did Ramabai found in Pune in 1889?Read the answer and worked solution →Which Hindu reformer supported Ramabai's Sharada Sadan?Read the answer and worked solution →Sharada Sadan moved to Kedgaon and took which new name?Read the answer and worked solution →Which newspaper did B.G. Tilak use to criticise Ramabai's work for widows?Read the answer and worked solution →Why was Ramabai's 1880 marriage to Bipin Behari Medhvi considered improper then?Read the answer and worked solution →In which year did the British government award Ramabai the Kaisar-i-Hind Medal?Read the answer and worked solution →In which year was sati declared illegal under the Bengal Regulation?Read the answer and worked solution →

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Naigaon, the birthplace of Savitribai Phule, lies in which district?

  1. Satara
  2. Pune
  3. Nashik
  4. Kolhapur
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Correct answer: A. Satara

1. Savitribai was born on 3 January 1831 at Naigaon village. 2. The village is in Satara District of Maharashtra. 3. Pune is where she later taught, so it is not her birth district. _Source: Wikipedia, Savitribai Phule, Early life_

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Who first taught Savitribai Phule to read and write after her marriage?

  1. Raja Ram Mohan Roy
  2. Jyotirao Phule
  3. Keshab Chandra Sen
  4. Dayananda Saraswati
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Correct answer: B. Jyotirao Phule

1. Savitribai was illiterate when she married. 2. Her husband Jyotirao Phule, with Sagunabai Kshirsagar, taught her at home and on the farm. 3. Ranade, Roy and Sen were other reformers, not her teachers. _Source: Wikipedia, Savitribai Phule, Education_

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India's first girls' school, started in January 1848, stood at which place in Pune?

  1. Bhidewada
  2. Maharwada
  3. Kedgaon
  4. Naigaon
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Correct answer: A. Bhidewada

1. Savitribai, Jyotirao and Sagunabai started a school in January 1848. 2. It was at Bhidewada, the home of Tatya Saheb Bhide, and became India's first girls' school. 3. Maharwada hosted a school for marginalized communities; Kedgaon is Ramabai's later site. _Source: Wikipedia, Savitribai Phule, Career_

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