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Author : Ramabai Sarasvati
Release : 1887
Genre : Hindu women
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Book Synopsis The High-caste Hindu Woman by : Ramabai Sarasvati
Download or read book The High-caste Hindu Woman written by Ramabai Sarasvati. This book was released on 1887. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Uma Chakravarti
Release : 2014-10-27
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Synopsis Rewriting History by : Uma Chakravarti
Download or read book Rewriting History written by Uma Chakravarti. This book was released on 2014-10-27. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this classic study of Pandita Ramabai's life, Uma Chakravarti brings to light one of the foremost thinkers of nineteenth-century India and one of its earliest feminists. A scholar and an eloquent speaker, Ramabai was no stranger to controversy. Her critique of Brahminical patriarchy was in sharp contrast to Annie Besant, who championed the cause of Hindu society. And in an act seen by contemporary Hindu society as a betrayal not only of her religion but of her nation, Ramabai – herself a high-caste Hindu widow – chose to convert to Christianity. Chakravarti's book stands out as one of the most important critiques of gender and power relations in colonial India, with particular emphasis on issues of class and caste. Published by Zubaan.
Author : Helen S. Dyer
Release : 1900
Genre : Christian converts from Hinduism
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Book Synopsis Pandita Ramabai by : Helen S. Dyer
Download or read book Pandita Ramabai written by Helen S. Dyer. This book was released on 1900. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Meera Kosambi
Release : 2016-01-22
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Pandita Ramabai by : Meera Kosambi
Download or read book Pandita Ramabai written by Meera Kosambi. This book was released on 2016-01-22. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book looks at the life of Pandita Ramabai, one of the major social reformers of 19th-century India. Her unique life trajectory spanned across a pan-Indian, orthodox Hindu mould to being part of Brahmo Samaj and Prarthana Samaj, and further to Christianity. At the age of 30 she had travelled widely within India and across the world, from USA and UK in the West to Japan in the Far East. She reported these fascinating journeys to international friends and fellow Maharashtrians in both English and Marathi. Fighting conservatism and marginalization she set up several projects to empower women, notably, the Sharada Sadan in Mumbai and the Mukti Mission in Kedgaon near Pune in Maharashtra. This work locates Pandita Ramabai within her liminal social milieu and discursive networks during various phases of her life, and traces her diverse ideological routes along with her critical writings, some of which have been retrieved and/or presented in English translation here for the first time, including The High-Caste Hindu Woman and the newly discovered Voyage to England. Offering a comprehensive insight into aspects of 19th-century Indian society — religion and reform, women’s rights and feminism, social movements, poverty, and colonialism — this book will greatly interest researchers and students of South Asian history, sociology, and gender studies.
Author : Sandra Wagner-Wright
Release : 2015-10-21
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Rama's Labyrinth by : Sandra Wagner-Wright
Download or read book Rama's Labyrinth written by Sandra Wagner-Wright. This book was released on 2015-10-21. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A weekend’s engaging pursuit.” Five Stars—David Lloyd Sutton, San Francisco Book Review Educated and inquisitive, Pandita Ramabai was born in 1858 near Gangamul in the Western Ghat mountains of southern India. The daughter of a Sanskrit scholar, she rose to become a respected scholar herself, in a time when women rarely held such positions. But having lost nearly everyone she loved to famine or cholera, Rama spent most of her life in search of a community she could call home. A widow and single mother, she became a social activist and reformer, relentlessly advocating for the education of women and the care of India’s many poor, widowed child-brides. Rama’s journey takes readers across British India to England and America as this strong, determined woman battles prejudice, tradition and a male-dominated society to find justice for those with no voice or opportunity. The Pandita Ramabai Mukti Mission, which she founded during a severe famine, became home to thousands of outcast children, child widows, orphans, and other destitute women. It is still active today. As one of the world’s great, unsung heroines, Pandita Ramabai has been called one of India’s “greatest daughters.”
