Question

What were the contribution of pandita ramabai in the education of women (5 marker)

Answer 1

Pandita Ramabai was a truly remarkable woman who pioneered women’s education and rebelliously championed for women’s rights and empowerment. She combined ideas she had learned from the sisters and friends of different ethnicity and race at Wantage. Ramabai saw caste as a great flaw in Hindu society. It not only saw physical work and labour as denouncing, but it also led to false ideas of valuing intellect and merit. She also believed that caste associations promoted narrow self-interest and prevented the development of a democratic spirit in the real sense.

Ramabai’s work in the educational sector was commendable and greatly impressed her contemporaries, despite her connection to Christianity that irked many prominent personalities in western India. She was of the opinion that all these men were angry at her because her students were from upper caste communities. Had they been from other lower caste communities, they would not have bothered at all, is what she believed.

There have been many books and scholarly works on the life of Pandita Ramabai by writers and scholars from the east and the west both. Some of the prominent ones being the works of Meera Kosambi and Uma Chakravarti. Feminist scholarship remains in debt to the philosophy and work of Pandita Ramabai. Her vision continues to drive the feminist movement and scholarship even today, as it also continues to impact the lives of many women and young girls. She remains one of the most prominent women leader of Maharashtra and India.

Answer 2

On 11 March 1889,  Pandita Ramabai was known as Indian activist started Sharada Sadan also known as Home for Learning in Chowpatty, which was the district of Mumbai. She devised this foundation to promote a purpose for safety and an education for Hindu ladies who were widowed at a very young age. Pandita Ramabai originated her mission to enhance the lives and events of females in India.