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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 ]
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.
Pandita Ramabai was a social reformer, and a pioneer in the education and emancipation of women in India. During the British Raj , many reformers such as Ram Mohan Roy , Dayanand Saraswati , Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar and Jyotirao Phule fought for the betterment of women.
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.
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 ...
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]
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.
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)