Īśwar Chandra Vidyāsāgar#Ishwar
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#Ishwar
Īśwar Chandra Vidyāsāgar · 1820–1891
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Who this is
Education and social reform — India's first trained woman teacher and headmistress of the modern era; Marathi poet; co-builder, with her husband Jyotirāo, of the anti-caste movement.
“A girl married at nine and taught to read by her husband became, by seventeen, the teacher of India's first Indian-run school for girls — she walked to work carrying a spare sari because men threw dung at the one she wore, and forty-nine years later she died of plague caught carrying a sick child on her back.”
The big idea, in the book's words:
“Education is not an ornament for women and the low castes but the door out of their servitude — and someone has to be first through the door, hold it open, and take the stones that come flying after.”
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