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On 3 January 2017, the Google doodle celebrated the 186th birthday of Savitribai Jyotiba Phule, who was the cofounder of the first vernacular school for girls in India in 1848. Her memory was recently honoured by renaming Pune University as 'Savitribai Phule University'. It is worthwhile to see how the ripples of this 'innovation' started by Savitirbai Phule have permeated our society at large, today after nearly one and a half centuries. The seeds of women's education sown then, grew slowly in Maharashtra and this school was followed by the first high school for girls in 1886.
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