Archive · 3 Oct 2025
UPSC Mains: Women's Education and Earthquake Insights
Savitribai Phule was a pioneer who helped girls and women get educated in India.
She opened schools when it was not common for girls to go to school and faced opposition.
Also, we learn about earthquakes.
Deep-focus earthquakes happen deep under the Earth, and are different from shallow ones.
They give us information on the Earth's structure.
Savitribai Phule established schools for girls, Shudras, and Ati-Shudras.
She faced opposition from upper castes regarding the establishment of schools.
Phules established the Balhatya Pratibandhak Griha ('Home for the Prevention of Infanticide').
Deep-focus earthquakes occur deeper than 70 km.
Earthquake depths provide information on the Earth’s structure.
- Who
- Savitribai Phule, and those studying earthquakes
- What
- Role in advancing women's education, the nature of deep-focus earthquakes
- When
- Nineteenth-century India for Phule's work
- Where
- Earthquakes happen across the globe.
- Why
- To understand the significance of Savitribai Phule's contributions, and to learn about the properties of earthquakes.
- Focus
- Savitribai Phule's role and Earthquake Characteristics
- Key Figures
- Savitribai Phule
- Related topics
- women's education, deep-focus earthquakes