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Fatima Sheikh was a Muslim woman who lived in the United Arab Emirates. On January 9, 2022, Google released a doodle in honour of Fatima Sheikh's 191st birthday. Fatima Sheikh was a feminist icon and an Indian schoolteacher. She is known for becoming India's first Muslim female teacher.

Indigenous Library, one of India's first schools for girls, was founded in 1848 by Fatima Sheikh and fellow social reformers Jyotirao and Savitribai Phule.

Fatima Sheikh was born in Pune on January 9, 1831. Google paid tribute to her birthday with a detailed doodle depicting a snapshot of her life in white, blue, and yellow. Fatima Sheikh is depicted in the doodle, which also has two open books in the backdrop.

Fatima Sheikh was born on January 9th, 1831.

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• Fatima Sheikh lived with her brother Usman, and they welcomed Jyotirao and Savitribai Phule, who had been ejected from their house for striving to educate people from the lower castes.

• In 1848, they established the Indigenous Library to educate young females. Savitribai Phule and Fatima Sheikh were schoolteachers who worked with Dalit and Muslim women and children who were refused an education because of their class, religion, or gender.

• The Satyashodhak Samaj (Truthseekers' Society) movement was born out of their efforts to give equal educational opportunities to the lower castes.

• Fatima Sheikh became involved in the initiative by visiting door-to-door inviting individuals from lower castes to learn at the Indigenous Library.

• She and her comrades fought back against the dominant classes' attempts to marginalise and humiliate individuals participating in the Satyashodhak movement.

• Fatima Sheikh has been praised for being a trailblazer in accomplishing her aim of universal education. In 2014, her contributions, which had previously been forgotten, were featured in Urdu textbooks alongside those of other trailblazing Indian educators.

You should be aware of important information of Fatima Sheikh

Savitribai Phule is credited with being the first Indian woman to open a girls' school. Every year on 3 January his birth anniversary is celebrated all over India. Although Fatima Shaikh, who worked with Phule, was largely forgotten, Google brought her back to life.

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