Bollywood was Bullied Into Erasing a Woman’s Battle Against Tyranny

In 1840, a nine-year-old girl, Savitribai, born into Maharashtra's oppressed Mali caste, was wed to thirteen-year-old Jyotirao Phule. This was no ordinary union — it was a cosmic detonation, a cataclysm to upend the Brahminical empire of caste and patriarchy. 

Savitribai Phule went on to become India's first female teacher, a poet whose verses were flaming scythes, and a juggernaut who shattered the chains enslaving women and lower castes which make up over 70% of India's population.