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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 . [1]
पंडिता रमाबाई (२३ अप्रैल १८५८ - ५ अप्रैल १९२२) एक प्रतिष्ठित भारतीय समाज सुधारिका एवं सामाजिक कार्यकर्ता। [1]
Aug 3, 2023 · Born on April 23, 1858, to a Marathi Brahmin family, she faced loss at a young age with the demise of her parents during the Great Famine of 1876-78. Undeterred, she carried on...
PANDITA RAMABAI (1858–1922), social activist, proponent of women's rights in India. Pandita Ramabai was born in Mangalore District in 1858. Her father was a Chitpavan Brahman scholar, who taught her Sanskrit and refused to arrange her marriage.
Nov 14, 2018 · Pandita Ramabai Saraswati, a scholar, feminist and educator, broke nearly every rule and tradition that confined the life of an upper-caste Hindu woman in 19th-century India.
Pandita Ramabai (23 April 1858, Karnataka – 5 April 1922) was an Indian Christian who tried to change many things in India. A poet and scholar, she tried hard to improve (make better) the lives of women in India.
Rama Dongre, later known as Pandita Ramabai, was born in India in 1858 into a Marathi-speaking family, belonging to the priestly Brahmin caste. There were no schools for girls but, most unusually, both her parents gave her a thorough education in the Sanskrit language.
Indian scholar and reformer who drew international attention to the plight of Hindu widows and whose school offered shelter and education to thousands of these young women. Name variations: Ramabai Medhavi; Saraswati or Sarasvati.
Ramabai (1858 – 1922) was an extraordinary woman of her time — an educator, scholar, feminist, and social reformer, whose life was an example of how womanhood and religious identity were negotiated against the backdrop of Brahmanical culture, Christianity, and colonialism.
Dec 12, 2022 · A biography of Pandita Ramabai (1858-1922), a Brahmin widow. She was a pioneer among women Sanskrit scholars in the days when girls weren't educated. She was a social reformer who campaigned for the education of girls; she discouraged child marriage and promoted widow re-marriage.
