Subhashini Ali

1 month ago | countercurrents.org | Suresh Khairnar |Subhashini Ali |Vijay Prashad |Ram Puniyani

Overall, she got 67 years of life to live. She died of plague on 10 March 1897. And Jyotiba Phule had died seven years before her, at the age of 62. (28 November 1890) But Savitribai, who was 60 years old at that time, performed the cremation of Jyotiba after his death with great courage. Because due to the greed for property, her relatives had forbidden her adopted son Dr. Yashwant from cremating Jyotiba’s body, Savitribai herself performed this ritual.