Ramabai Sarasvati Pandita

The author Ramabai had been borned in the caste of Brahma; the highest of 4 Hindu caste. Her father Ananta Shahtri; against the custom law teached to Ramabai of Sanskrit, Veda, Code of Mano and other lessons resulting in excommunication and Badouin lifestyle. She was awarded with title of Pandita and Saraswati by University of Calcutta after being invited by the pandits upon hearing her famous reputation as preacher. In this book, she gave reader the insight of women life of Brahma caste and other Hindu women in India as general. She explained how the degradation of India till 19th century related to the miserable life of its women who will pass this experience of life to her children. She also narrate how religion scripture and custom being greatly affecting the lives, deaths and eternity of hindu women in India.

"Pandita Ramabai (1858-1922), renowned for her amazing learning in an age when most Indian women did not even learn to read, became a world-famous social reformer and speaker. When Ramabai's travels brought her to the United States, she decided to record her impressions of America and its citizens to share with her compatriots back home. Presenting in English the full text of Ramabai's well-written and charming work, this volume can be compared with that of Alexis de Tocqueville. In these pages Ramabai describes and assesses American domestic conditions, education, religious life, government, and business. While upholding some aspects of American life, especially the improved status of women, as ideals for her own country, Ramabai also makes insightful criticisms of life in the United States."--Jacket.

Biography of Pandita Ramabai Sarasvati, 1858-1922, social reformer from Maharashtra.