PaRCha - JNU - AISA chits - 2006 ID-7850
.
On her 109th death anniversary.
Of Savitribai Phule, Salute The.
Pioneering Legacy Of Women's.
Struggle For Education And So-.
cial Dignity Against Patriarchy.
And Brahminical Oppression !.
.
Savitribai Phule (1831-1897) was one of the Join JNUSU's.
first woman educationists in India. Educated by.
her husband, the radical Dalit activist and social PUBLIC OATH.
reformer of Maharashtra, Jyotirao Phule, she.
opened a school for untouchable girls in 1852. Her Against.
school was also a shelter for abandoned and sex- Dowry And.
ually exploited widows. She battled Brahminical.
reaction in order to teach Dalit girls and widows, Domestic Violence.
even those from Brahmin families. She faced.
physical violence and social ostracism head on. Against Women.
She mobilized barbers to refuse to perform the.
abhorrent practice of tonsuring widows. In 1868 10.3.06.
she welcomed untouchables to take water from Ganga Dhaba.
her well. In 1873 she adopted a son of a widow..
She died in 1897 working for the victims of plague 5.30pm.
in Poona..
aisa.
On her 109th death anniversary, AISA salutes her.
pioneering legacy of women's struggle for edu-.
cation and social dignity against patriarchy and.
Brahminical oppression..
.
Even today, getting an education for most women.
is an uphill struggle. Social violence - attacks on.
intercaste couples, sati, as well as dowry burnings.
and domestic violence - continue to pervade our.
society. Even those who are educated and ur-.
banized, continue to take dowry and burn brides..
Domestic violence rarely makes it to police FIRs,.
since it is considered a `private' matter. VHP.
leader Krishna Sharma even said husbands had.
a right to beat disobedient wives, just as parents.
have a right to chastise children! And even on our.
campus, where such justifications are not openly.
offered, it is a fact that many relationships are.
scarred by battering of women..
.
It is time to break the silence. It is time to chal-.
lenge the horror of women being burnt alive, or.
battered and brutalized, within the `safety' of the.
`home and hearth'. AISA appeals to students to.
joinPublic Oath Against Dowry And Domestic.
..
PaRCha - JNU - AISA chits - 2006 ID-7850
.
On her 109th death anniversary.
Of Savitribai Phule, Salute The.
Pioneering Legacy Of Women's.
Struggle For Education And So-.
cial Dignity Against Patriarchy.
And Brahminical Oppression !.
.
Savitribai Phule (1831-1897) was one of the Join JNUSU's.
first woman educationists in India. Educated by.
her husband, the radical Dalit activist and social PUBLIC OATH.
reformer of Maharashtra, Jyotirao Phule, she.
opened a school for untouchable girls in 1852. Her Against.
school was also a shelter for abandoned and sex- Dowry And.
ually exploited widows. She battled Brahminical.
reaction in order to teach Dalit girls and widows, Domestic Violence.
even those from Brahmin families. She faced.
physical violence and social ostracism head on. Against Women.
She mobilized barbers to refuse to perform the.
abhorrent practice of tonsuring widows. In 1868 10.3.06.
she welcomed untouchables to take water from Ganga Dhaba.
her well. In 1873 she adopted a son of a widow..
She died in 1897 working for the victims of plague 5.30pm.
in Poona..
aisa.
On her 109th death anniversary, AISA salutes her.
pioneering legacy of women's struggle for edu-.
cation and social dignity against patriarchy and.
Brahminical oppression..
.
Even today, getting an education for most women.
is an uphill struggle. Social violence - attacks on.
intercaste couples, sati, as well as dowry burnings.
and domestic violence - continue to pervade our.
society. Even those who are educated and ur-.
banized, continue to take dowry and burn brides..
Domestic violence rarely makes it to police FIRs,.
since it is considered a `private' matter. VHP.
leader Krishna Sharma even said husbands had.
a right to beat disobedient wives, just as parents.
have a right to chastise children! And even on our.
campus, where such justifications are not openly.
offered, it is a fact that many relationships are.
scarred by battering of women..
.
It is time to break the silence. It is time to chal-.
lenge the horror of women being burnt alive, or.
battered and brutalized, within the `safety' of the.
`home and hearth'. AISA appeals to students to.
joinPublic Oath Against Dowry And Domestic.
..