Pandita ramabai biography
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Pandita ramabai biography
Ramabai, Pandita (1858–1922)
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.
Born Ramabai Dongre on April 23, 1858, in Mysore State, India; died at her school for Hindu widows, the Mukti Sadan, in Kedgaon, Bombay Presidency, India, on April 5, 1922; daughter of Anant Sastri Dongre and Lakshmibai (both Sanskrit scholars); educated by parents in Sanskrit and Hindu sacred texts; attended Cheltenham Ladies College in England, 1884–86; married Bipin Beharidas Medhavi (a lawyer), in 1880 (died 1882); children: Manoramabai (b.
1881).
When six months old, family adopted a peripatetic lifestyle, traveling to Hindu holy places and earning money by reciting sacred Sanskrit texts; after deaths of father, mother and sister, Ramabai and her brother continued their travels, arriving in Calcutta (1878), where h