The Great Indian Teachers!!

  Savitribai Phule (3 January 1831 – 10 March 1897)

In Tiffany Wayne words Savitribai Phule is  "one of the first-generation modern Indian feminists, and an important contributor to world feminism in general, as she was both addressing and challenging not simply the question of gender in isolation but also issues related to caste and casteist patriarchy."

She was the first women teacher of first women school of Indian when she opened a school of untouchable girls in 1852. As a result, people start throwing rotten eggs, stones, Cow dung etc. when she used to walk to school.  She pursued her dream and at the end of the year she managed to open 5 more school for untouchable girls. 

She was a poet and social reformer as with her husband she kept working for the welfare of widows and helpless women.

P. C. Roy (2 August 1861 – 16 June 1944)

Prafulla Chandra Roy (P.C.Roy) was known as father of modern chemical industry of India. He played a prominent role in Bengal renaissance. He Single handedly established “The Bengal Chemical and Pharmaceutical Works Limited', the first Indian Pharmaceutical company. 

As a result of his perseverance and hard work he was successful in chemical synthesizing of potassium nitrate. A very popular teacher, eminent scholar and devoted his life to spread the scientific knowledge in people.

   Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan (05^th Sept 1888 – 17^th April 1975)

India’s second president, Bharat ratna and a great philosopher is a teacher for which we should be proud of.  We celebrate teacher’s day on his birthday, everyone knows that but no one knew that his father never want him to study English. He wants him to be priest. But as destiny persists he became a great philosopher and one of the most renowned and liked figure which represented India on international arena. He was India’s ambassador to USSR during 1949-1952. Also he was the vice president from 1952-1962. He was also a professor in Oxford University on eastern religion and ethics.

George P. Conger said, "Among the philosophers of our time, no one has achieved so much in so many fields as has Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan of India ... William James was influential in religion, and John Dewey has been a force in politics. One or two American philosophers have been legislators. Jacques Maritain has been an ambassador. Radhakrishnan, in a little more than thirty years of work, has done all these things and more... Never in the history of philosophy has there been quite such a world-figure. With his unique appointment at Banaras and Oxford, like a weaver's shuttle, he has gone to and fro between the East and West, carrying a thread of understanding, weaving it into the fabric of civilization."

  C V Raman (7^th Nov 1888 -  21 Nov 1970)

India’s first nobel laureate for “Raman effect” in Physics. He was not only India’s but Asia’s first Nobel Laureate and also awarded India’s highest civilian award Bharat Ratna. Raman also worked on the acoustics of musical instruments. He worked out the theory of transverse vibration of bowed strings, on the basis of superposition velocities. 

He was also the first to investigate the harmonic nature of the sound of the Indian drums such as the tabla and the mridangam.  He discovered that, when light traverses a transparent material, some of the deflected light changes in wavelength. This phenomenon is now called Raman scattering and is the result of the Raman Effect.

     Ramchandra Kundgolkar (19th Jan 1886 – 12th Sept 1952)

The most amazing thing about Ramchandra Kundgolkar is that he was the teacher of Bharat ratan laureate Pt. Bhimsen Joshi but he himself was never completed his education of music. He studies music under Ustad Karim khan who told Sawai to stay with him for at least 8 years but Sawai left him in between and become a stage singer and started playing the role of female and become famous

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These were the 5 teachers who were so good in their profession but still people don’t know much about them. We need to educate about this great personalities especially to our younger generation. They have left amazing legacy which we need to keep pass on generations after generations. There are many more in the list which we would keep sharing with time, till then enjoy reading the article.

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