social reformer
Fatima Sheikh
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Subject of 1 profile piece — including Forgotten Feminist, Educator: Fatima Sheikh .
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- Forgotten Feminist, Educator: Fatima Sheikh
- "A rarely remembered social reformer, Fatima Sheikh was among the first Indian Muslim woman educator" — establishes her significance and the central irony of her historical neglect
- "it was Fatima who gave them refuge in her house" — her concrete act of solidarity with the Phules when they were expelled from their ancestral home