Kaavya Phule: a collection of poems

This collection of poems is Savitribai Phule's hagiography in verse or you can say - especially if you read the original Marathi - in song. Many of the poems are written in the form of ovis that are meant to be sung. It is a little known fact that Savitribai was a poet of great substance, a master of her craft. When one considers the other, more celebrated accomplishments of her life - her pioneering of education for women and the lower castes and the very difficult times of nineteenth cent...