According to the NCP, Savitribai Phule, a well-known social reformer from Maharashtra, is being defamed via bogus postings on internet. In relation to two websites, Indic Tales and Hindu Post, a team from the NCP has asked the police to get involved.
At ten in the morning, the delegation—which also includes Ajit Pawar, Jayant Patil, Chhagan Bhujbal, and Sunil Tatkare—will meet with Mumbai Police Commissioner Vivek Phansalkar. Chhagan Bhujbal has previously sent a letter requesting action from the Chief Minister and Deputy Chief Minister on this matter.
“The website asserts that Indian women were made available to British troops in the cantonment area and indicates that this arrangement allowed the British servicemen—who had been away from their families for years—to satisfy their sexual needs. They assert that around this period Savitribai Phule’s school was founded and that the British helped the institution. They want to imply that the girls committed what is known as “surgical rape.” These websites are publishing these posts. My mother Savitribai is being insulted by this, said Chhagan Bhujbal.
The effort to discredit Savitribai Phule is egregious, agonizing, and utterly abhorrent, Bhujbal said. “The gateway is essentially erasing history while seeming to be updating it. He emphasized that the state government should take the issue seriously and outlaw the websites in order to combat this anti-social attitude.
On January 4, 2022, an article titled “Why Hindu Female Teachers Before Savitribai Phule Are Not Recognized” appeared on Indic Tales. The information is credited to @Bharadwajspeaks in the article.
In actuality, British missionaries funded Savitribai Phule’s school. The British presented Savitribai with a prize on November 16, 1852. The finest instructor, according to the British, was Savitribai. We must ask the following query: Thousands of Indians were killed by the British colonial invaders, who felt no remorse in destroying India. What goal did they have in mind when they backed Savitribai’s project? Why were British people drawn to Indian women? The response will shock you greatly. According to the article, the British used colonial India as a holding area for their troops who were serving as East India Company (and subsequently, royal) soldiers.
They were held in around 100 military cantonments in the 1850s. These troops had a variety of demands, including sexual desires, and they lived a long distance from their home nation. To satisfy their troops’ sex desires, the British employed Indian women. Each military cantonment held a large number of Indian women against their will. They were only authorized to interact with British troops and were not allowed to leave the grounds. They were listed as residents of the cantonment,” the paper went on to say.
The NCP has expressed reservations over another item that was published on Hindupost.
The question “Was Savitribai Phule Really the First Female Teacher in Bharat?” read the Hindu Post story.
Without a byline, the story from January 5, 2022 says, “Hotee was a Bengali Hindu widow. She studied Sanskrit poetry as well as law, mathematics, and ayurveda. She founded a school for women in Varanasi and was given the honorific title “Vidyalankar” by the Kashi Pandits. Before Savitribai was even born, this occurred. Who was the first woman professor? Savitribai Phule was born 21 years after Hotee Vidyalankar passed away.
