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Pandita Ramabai - Life and landmark writings (Paperback)
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Pandita Ramabai - Life and landmark writings (Paperback)
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This book looks at the life of Pandita Ramabai, one of the major
social reformers of 19th-century India. Her unique life trajectory
spanned across a pan-Indian, orthodox Hindu mould to being part of
Brahmo Samaj and Prarthana Samaj, and further to Christianity. At
the age of 30 she had travelled widely within India and across the
world, from USA and UK in the West to Japan in the Far East. She
reported these fascinating journeys to international friends and
fellow Maharashtrians in both English and Marathi. Fighting
conservatism and marginalization she set up several projects to
empower women, notably, the Sharada Sadan in Mumbai and the Mukti
Mission in Kedgaon near Pune in Maharashtra. This work locates
Pandita Ramabai within her liminal social milieu and discursive
networks during various phases of her life, and traces her diverse
ideological routes along with her critical writings, some of which
have been retrieved and/or presented in English translation here
for the first time, including The High-Caste Hindu Woman and the
newly discovered Voyage to England. Offering a comprehensive
insight into aspects of 19th-century Indian society - religion and
reform, women's rights and feminism, social movements, poverty, and
colonialism - this book will greatly interest researchers and
students of South Asian history, sociology, and gender studies.
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