Ramabai - Stroy of an Indian Widow
Pandita Ramabai was the daughter of a Sanskrit scholar for western India and belonged to caste of Brahmans. She became highly proficient in the Hindu texts. By the age of twelve, Ramabai got married to Madhavi, a graduate of Calcutta University. It is to be noticed that she married outside of her caste, to a lower caste boy. And at that time, when strict Hindu ideology was followed by whole India in which outside caste marriage was not accepted by the society. The couple had liberal views and rejected Hindu orthodoxy. They had a girl child when Madhavi (husband) died and thus led Ramabai to start her career as an Indian widow. Now, because she had married outside of her caste which was not approved by her parents, she was on her own after the death of her husband. Nobody came to help her out. So, Ramabai became active in the reformist group and began speaking out on poor women’s education, condemning child marriage and urged for women education in Sanskrit and local language. She formed a women’s association in Pune because of which see was honored with the title of “Pandit”. From the proceeds of her book, “Moral law for women” she travele
After a few years Ramabai went to Philadelphia and wrote a book which focused to the high caste Hindu woman. In this she discussed about discriminatory aspects of Hinduism, child marriage, widow’s status and lack of education for women. She desired to create a body of Indian women who could teach/educate higher caste Indian women to achieve their self reliance. She wanted to build homes for young widows where they could get education and become teachers, nurses and run their small business. Till now it was my understanding that she was against castism, but she open schools in which only higher caste widows were admitted. The only valid season may be that because higher class women have somewhat of an education background, which makes it easier to train/educate them further. She went to USA and after an emotional appeal requested for financial help to free Indian young widows. She got the financial help and formed associations. She visited other countries too, including Canada and Hong Kong. She worked hard but became handicapped since she spoke only about the conditions of women and not backwardness of general public in the society which was dominated b
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