Pandita ramabai

Birth of Pandita Ramabai - [April 23, 1858] This Day in History 23 April 1858 Birth of Pandita Ramabai What happened? On 23 April 1858, social activist and educationist Pandita Ramabai was born at Canara District in present-day Karnataka. Pandita Ramabai Biography In this edition of This Day in History, you can read all about the life and contributions of Pandita Ramabai, social reformer and educationist for the • Pandita Ramabai was born Rama Dongre to a Marathi Brahmin family in 1858. Her father was a Sanskrit scholar and Ramabai learnt Sanskrit from him initially. • Her parents died during the famine of 1877. Ramabai and her brother travelled all over the country and her fame as a scholar reached Calcutta. The University of Calcutta invited her to give a lecture and also awarded her the title of ‘Pandita’ because of her erudition in Sanskrit. • She was also conferred with the title of ‘Saraswati’ owing to her knowledge and interpretations of the various Sanskrit texts. • Renowned reformer Keshub Chandra Sen gave her a copy of the Vedas. • In 1880, Ramabai married Bipin Behari Medhvi, a Bengali lawyer. This was a bold move for that era as it was an inter-caste marriage. It was, therefore, a civil wedding. • Ramabai had a daughter Manorama. Tragedy struck in 1882 when Medhvi died. • After her husband’s death, Ramabai started Arya Mahila Samaj (Arya Women’s Society) at Pune. • The purpose of the Society was to provide education to women and to discourage and fig...

Fulfilling our responsibility to love well often directs us to act counterculturally in a society that more typically rewards self-centered actions. Loving well means taking seriously the Bible’s many commands to care for widows and orphans (Exod 22:22; Deut 14:29; Isa 1:17; Zech 7:9–10; Jas 1:27). Throughout history, exemplars of the faith step outside of cultural expectations and stand up for the powerless through the love of Christ. Over a century ago, Ramabai Dongre overcame personal tragedies and applied her education and status to improve life for women and children in India. Born to a scholarly, high-caste Hindu family in 1858, Ramabai always understood the value of education. Against cultural expectations, Ramabai’s father taught her Sanskrit—a rare education for a woman at that time. But when Ramabai was sixteen, tragedy struck: her parents died during a famine. Just a few years later, her brother died. In 1880, she married outside of her caste and her region, which was regarded as improper. Less than two years after the wedding, her husband died. Thus, at age 23, Ramabai was fatherless, brotherless, widowed, and caring for her infant daughter as a single mother. At that moment, when she was as powerless as a woman could be in that society, she applied her one remaining tool—her education—to speak out about the unfair, unequal treatment of women in India. Her skill in Sanskrit led to an invitation to Calcutta, where she received the title Pandita (a specialist in ...

​( m.1880;died1882) ​ Children 1 Pandita Ramabai Sarasvati (23 April 1858 – 5 April 1922) was an Indian social reformer. She was the first woman to be awarded the titles of Early life and education [ ] Pandita Ramabai Sarasvati was born as Ramabai Dongre on 23 April 1858 into a Marathi-speaking Orphaned at the age of 16 during the Great Famine of 1876–78, Ramabai and her brother Srinivas continued the family tradition of traveling the country reciting Sanskrit scriptures. Ramabai was comfortable in addressing all genders but women in those times would not come out in public spaces. Sometimes, she would go inside the female quarters to convince the women to get educated. Ramabai's fame as a woman adept in Sanskrit reached This was her first exposure to the Bengali gentry and Christainity. Rama and Shrinivas were meeting a number of sanskrit scholars but she was quite astonished to attend a meeting of Christians. She admits to being impressed by the Christian mode of worshipping. She met Bipin Chandra Madhvi at the Social activism [ ] When in 1882 the With earnings from the sale of her first book, Stri Dharma Niti ("Morals for Women," 1882) and contacts with the CSMV, Ramabai went to Britain in 1883 to start medical training; she was rejected from medical programs because of progressive deafness. In 1886, she traveled from Britain to the The High-Caste Hindu Woman. Her first book written in English, Ramabai dedicated it to her cousin, Dr. Joshi. The High-Caste Hindu Woman sh...

Pandita Ramabai’s Powerful Story: in her own words The story of the Pandita Ramabai is powerful as one woman saw needs around her, addressed them, and influenced and impacted the nation of India for 132 years and counting! You have not stumbled on this story by chance. It is not fate. It is the power of Truth that brings you here and will go with you to transform your life as Pandita Ramabai transformed so many lives in her day. But depending altogether on our Father God, we have nothing to fear, nothing lose, and nothing to regret. The Lord is our Inexhaustible Treasure! – Pandita Ramabai Pandita Ramabai was: an unusual saint-like self-sacrificing “mother” to several thousand unfortunate, ill-treated child widows and destitute orphans. She started schools and the well-known Mission called the Pandita RAMABAI Mukti Mission. With motherly love, she cared for a family that grew to 2000 girls, many of whom had experienced the horrors of famine. This is her story – in her own words! Her story begins with Founder of the Pandita Ramabai Mukti Mission

Ramabai, Dongre Medhavi [Pandita Ramabai Sarasvati] (1858-1922) Indian Christian social reformer, educator and Bible translator Ramabai Dongre (Dongre was her family name, Medhavi her married name) was born into a high-caste Hindu family. Her father was a wandering professional reciter of Hindu epic and mythological texts. After her parents’ death in the 1874 famine, she and her brother continued the family tradition. Going to Calcutta in 1878, the titles “Pandita” and “Sarasvati” were bestowed on her as an acknowledgement of her learning. She joined the Brahmo Samaj (a reformist Hindu association) and in June 1880 married a man of much lower caste than hers. Her only child, Manorama, was born in April 1881. Less than a year later her husband died of cholera, leaving her in the unenviable situation of a high-caste Hindu widow. Through the influence of Nehemiah Goreh’s apologetical writings she became intellectually convinced that whatever was true in the Brahmo theology was atually Christian in origin, and in 1883, during a visit to England, she was baptized in the chapel of the (Anglican) Community of St. Mary the Virgin in Wantage, England, some of whose members she had met in Poona (Pune). She was in Europe to pursue a medical degree, which in the end her deafness made impossible. From 1883 to 1886 Ramabai was in the formal sense an Anglo-Catholic, lecturing and studying social reform and education. In 1887 she published her first English book, The High-Caste Hindu Woma...

RAMABAI, PANDITA RAMABAI, PANDITA . 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. For Hindus and Christians, her life and work, including her intellectual probings and hermeneutical clashes with Hindu social reformers and Christian missionaries, seemed to signal contradictory and confusing messages. As a learned scholar of her own tradition, she vigorously questioned the status of women within Hinduism. Later, when she became a Christian, she challenged institutionalized Christianity with its creeds, which she felt stifled the power of the gospel, and she subsequently quarreled with Bible translators for their unwitting use of Ved āntic terms in the Marathi version of the Bible. She seems to have lived and worked out her life on the margins of traditions, constructing her own independent agency. Ramabai was born into a Chitpavan Brahman family in Karnataka. She was the youngest child of Anant Shastri Dongre, a devout Hindu and erudite Sanskrit pundit, and his much younger wife, Lakshmibai. Contrary to the prevailing mood of the time, Anant Shastri believed in women's education and he opposed outdated customs like child marriage, having witnessed the sad fate of his daughter Krishnabai's child marriage. Ramabai had an unconventional upbringing in that ...