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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 (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 ]
Rewriting History: The Life and Times of Pandita Ramabai Uma Chakravarti (born 20 August 1941) is an Indian historian and filmmaker . Beginning in the 1980s, Chakravarti wrote extensively on Indian history highlighting issues relating to gender , caste , and class , publishing seven books over the course of her career.
Feminism as an initiative started independently in Maharashtra by the pioneer of women's rights and education: Savitribai Phule, who started the first school for girls in India (1848); [18] [19] Tarabai Shinde, who wrote India's first feminist text Stri Purush Tulana (A Comparison Between Women and Men) in 1882; and Pandita Ramabai, who ...
Social reformers are individuals who actively challenge and seek to change societal norms and structures that perpetuate inequality and injustice. Their work addresses systemic issues such as caste discrimination, gender bias, economic disparity, and access to education and healthcare.
Katie Couric and Bryant Gumbel Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for UNICEF Katie Couric is reflecting on the “sexist attitude” her former coanchor Bryant Gumbel displayed while working together on the ...
She worked extensively on the 19th-century Indian feminist Pandita Ramabai, whose writings she compiled, edited and translated from Marathi. [1] She has also translated and edited the autobiography and scholarly writings of her grandfather Dharmananda Damodar Kosambi. Kosambi died in Pune on 26 February 2015 after a brief illness. [2]
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)