When Savitribai Phule and Jotirao Phule started a school for girls, they were fighting for women's right to education.

When Phules started infanticide prevention centre for widows, they were fighting for widows' right to safe childbirth.

Phules did not have a biological child so people advised Jotirao to have a second marriage. He refused saying if women don't have a right to have more than one husband, why should I have more than one wife?

Phules started satyashodhak marriages with the intention of bringing equality in marriage. Jotirao gave a framework about how these marriages should be conducted.

All of these were feminist acts. Someone would say, feminist movement didn't exist then. Phules didn't know the word feminsm. Or, feminism is not a Marathi word. However, word is not important, content is.

Oxford dictionary defines feminism as "The advocacy of women's rights on the ground of the equality of the sexes." That advocacy is the important part, not the word feminism.

Feminist movement is not equal to feminist theory. Anybody who fights for women's rights anywhere in the world, irrespective of whether they know the word feminism, are doing their share to take feminist movement ahead.

If someone fights against caste injustice without having read any anti-caste literature or without allegiance to any anti-caste movement, they would still be doing their share for the anti-caste movement. Same with feminist movement.

Also, annihilation of caste doesn't automatically guarantee annihilation of patriarchy. World has many societies without caste but they do have patriarchy. Also, we don't know when we will annihilate caste altogether. We can't ask women to just sit by till then.