Who is Fatima Sheikh, the late Indian educator honoured by Google Doodle?

Google Doodle on Sunday remembered late Indian educator and feminist icon Fatima Sheikh on her 191st birth anniversary. Born in 1831 in Pune, Sheikh is considered to be India's first Muslim woman teacher. Sheikh, alongside fellow pioneers and social reformers Jyotirao and Savitribai Phule, co-founded the Indigenous Library in 1848, one of the first schools for girls in the country.

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