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Pandita Ramabai Sarasvati (23 April 1858 – 5 April 1922) was an Indian social reformer and Christian missionary. She was the first woman to be awarded the titles of Pandita as a Sanskrit scholar and Sarasvati after being examined by the faculty of the University of Calcutta . [ 2 ]
Pandita Ramabai Mukti mission, a Christian charity that serves needy women, the disabled, and destitute children is based near the village. [1] Early 20th century Hindu saint Narayan Maharaj also resided in the village. His ashram at Kedgaon bet is a place of pilgrimage for his devotees. [2]
The first colloquial version was made by Pandita Ramabai in language easy for Pune women to understand. [8] [9] [10] Later translators of the Bible include Bapuji Appaji, B. N. Athavle and Ratnakar Hari Kelkar. In collaboration with Church centric bible translation, Free Bibles India has published a Marathi translation online.
Heavily influenced by Pandita Ramabai, Dorothy named her daughter Manorama after Pandita Ramabai's second daughter, who was named Mano. [3] Her father Paul successfully mobilised economically disadvantaged people in neighbouring villages to fight for their rights to land that they'd been living on for generations.
Pandita Ramabai Sarasvati : pioneer in the movement for the education of the child-widow of India (1922) Ownership : God is the owner, I am His steward. By Clementina Butler, Author of "Pandita Ramabai Sarasvati" (1927) Mrs. William Butler: Two Empires and the Kingdom. By the same author, "William Butler" (1929)
The author mentions visiting Pandita Ramabai's work while being in India which indicates that the book was written sometime between the 1920s and the early 1930s. The Preface to the book in Hendrickson Christian Classics Edition mentions that according to the records of the British Library,
Pandita Ramabai Hostel (PRH), the girls’ hostel of Wilson College was established in 1932. [17] The hostel conducts an annual ‘Fresher’s Night’ where the new residents come together and perform for other residents of the hostel.
Peter Percival – Wesleyan Methodist Mission; Robert Turlington Noble – Founder of Noble College, Machilipatnam; Hopestill Pillow – Zenana Missionary to India; William Arthur Stanton – American Baptist Missionary in South Indian town of Kurnool of Andhra Pradesh. William Ward [4] Charlotte White – first unmarried American woman missionary