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Spouse: and encouraged her to teach girls. His encouragement led to Savitri Bai becoming the country’s first female teacher. As a widow remarrying advocate, Jyotiba Phule founded a home for lower and upper caste widows in 1854. To combat female infanticide, he also opened a shelter for newly-born infants. To fight for the equal rights of the poor and people from lower castes, Phule and his followers founded the Satyashodhak Samaj in 1873. Jyotiba Phule tried to remove the stigma of social untouchability that surrounded the lower castes by opening his home and allowing lower castes to use his water well
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