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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 IAS exam.
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 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 fight against the practice of child marriage.
The government of India appointed a commission to look into the matter of education in 1882. Ramabai gave evidence before the commission. She recommended women school inspectors be appointed. She also suggested that Indian women be taken into medical colleges since women doctors were needed to treat women.
This event created a ripple effect and even reached the ears of the British monarch Victoria. The result was in the establishment of the Women’s Medical Movement by Lady Dufferin.
She travelled all over India giving speeches about the importance of educating women. She left for England in 1883 to study medicine. During her stay, she converted to Christianity.
She also travelled to the USA to attend the graduation of Anandibai Joshi, the first Indian woman doctor. Between her travels, she also wrote and translated a vast number of books.
Returning to India in 1889, she started the ‘Sharada Sadan’. She founded the Mukti Mission for the education of child widows.
Many accused her of using these organisations as a front for conversions.
The British government presented her with the Kaiser-i-Hind medal in 1919.
Ramabai died on 5 April 1922, 9 months after the death of her daughter. In October 1989, the Indian government issued a commemorative stamp in her honour.
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Pandita Ramabai was born on 23rd April in the forest of Ganamal in Maharashtra to Lakshmibai and a High caste Hindu Brahmin named Anant Shastri, who was a social reformer and was interested in educating girls. He was very learned in Sanskrit and he would read the Puranas in temples for livelihood. He was abandoned from the society for teaching his wife Sanskrit. The village Brahmans shunned him and he decided to leave the village and built a home in the forest. Soon Ramabai was born. She was the youngest of the three surviving children. While she was still young the family started moving from forest to forest and town to town.
Wherever he could her father would give lectures on the need for female education. Born at the forest home, she grew up in a family that embarked on several continuous journeys to holy places across India, managing to survive by reciting sacred stories and practising severities that the Hindu religion commands, in order to gain religious merit and thus a living. Ramabai’s parents passed away in the year 1877 due to famine. Her sister too died during the same time.
With only a brother left, she continued travelling all over India with him and reached Calcutta in 1878. Ramabai had impeccable command over the Sanskrit vernacular by then. Her exceptional knowledge of Sanskrit texts astonished the scholars and she was awarded with the highest titles of Pandita and Sarasvati, which means ‘A wise person’ and ‘goddess of learning/wisdom’ respectively. Ramabai’s brother passed away after they moved to Calcutta, following which she got married to Bipen Behan Das Medhavi who was a Shudra by caste, a lawyer and a teacher by profession. Both of them studied the western philosophy and ideas together. They had a daughter out of their wedlock. Unfortunately her husband died the following year, after which she returned to Pune