Explain the role of pandita ramabai in improving the condition of women..
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Pandita Ramabai Sarasvati (23 April 1858 – 5 April 1922) was an Indian social reformer, a pioneer in the education and emancipation of women in India. She was the first woman to be accorded the titles of Pandita as a Sanskrit scholar and Sarasvati after being examined by the faculty of the University of Calcutta.
she opened Sharada Sadan (or Home for Learning) in Mumbai. She started this with an aim to empower young widowed women. She taught the women to read, write, learn history and environment, among others. Sharada Sadan was the first institution in India to provide residential school for Brahmin women, mainly widows, but also unmarried girls. It was the first organisation to provide them formal and regular school education and vocational training. It not only assured economic safety for women, but also social acceptance for their livelihoods. She also received complete support from the social reformers in India, who were impressed with her ability to raise finds in a foreign country and even more impressed with her devotion to social reform back in India.
In 1889, famine hit Pune city. Attempting to control it, the government placed restrictions on the movement of people and a limit was placed on the number of people who could reside in Sharada Sadan. Not wanting to waste time, Ramabai went to Khedgaon near Pune, where she had purchased 100 acres of land, and set up Mukti Mission. She provided housing to women and children attending the school. Widows were encouraged not only to be independent, but were taught a variety of skills – from carpentry to running a printing press, the kind of skill sets that women were barred from acquiring and learning then. She also designed a remedial curriculum which included subjects like physiology and botany. It also included learning about one’s own body and physical world around them. Industrial training, printing, carpentry, tailoring, masonry, wood-cutting, weaving and needlework, as well as training in farming and gardening was taught.
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