Highlight the work by Mahatma Phule for the Backward Classes.
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He opened a school for untouchable girls at a young age at Bhide. Local upper-caste people objected to it, and he was asked to close the school, and quit the locality. He left the place, but soon he restarted the work after raising funds from prominent Europeans and Indians.
Soon he opened three schools for Scheduled Castes which were:
(1) A girls’ school at Budhwar Peth (1851)
(2) A school at Rasta Peth (1851)
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(3) A school at Vital Peth (1852)
He opened the first native library for low-caste students. In 1854, Jotiba joined the Scottish Mission School as a teacher and was greatly influenced by prominent educationists and missionaries such as Rev. Muray Mitchell, Prof Wilson, and Prof Jones.
He opened a school for untouchable girls at a young age at Bhide. Local upper-caste people objected to it, and he was asked to close the school, and quit the locality. He left the place, but soon he restarted the work after raising funds from prominent Europeans and Indians.
Soon he opened three schools for Scheduled Castes which were:
(1) A girls’ school at Budhwar Peth (1851)
(2) A school at Rasta Peth (1851)
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