New Delhi. According to the big news in the morning, today is the 191st birth anniversary of India’s first Muslim female teacher, Fatima Sheikh. On this special occasion, Google has also honored and thanked him by making a great doodle.
Let us tell the readers that Fatima Sheikh along with social reformers Jyoti Ba Phule and Savitri Bai Phule also started an indigenous library in 1848. This library is also considered to be the first girls’ school in the country.
Significantly, Fatima Sheikh was born on this day i.e. 9 January 1831 in Pune. She lived with her brother Usman. Let us inform that when Phule couple was thrown out of the house by their father in protest against giving education to Dalit and poor, it was Osman Sheikh and Fatima who gave them shelter in their house.
After this the indigenous library was established in the house of this Sheikh. After this, Fatima Sheikh and Phule couple started a belligerent and virtuous work of providing education to the poor and deprived sections of the society and Muslim women. In fact, in a way, a Mahayagya was started in this school of Pune to educate those people, who were always denied education at that time on the basis of caste, religion and gender.
Fatima used to bring children from house to house to teach
At the same time, Fatima used to go door-to-door to invite all the children to study in her house. She always wanted the children of the underprivileged to come and study in her library by crossing the barriers of the Indian caste system.
In this way, like the Phule couple, she was engaged in the struggle for education and equality throughout her life. Fatima Sheikh and Phule couple thus became immortal in Indian history forever. We also salute their hard work and bravery.