Letter from Pundita Ramabai to May Wright Sewall.

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Letter from Pundita Ramabai to May Wright Sewall.

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Title: Letter from Pundita Ramabai to May Wright Sewall.
Description: (Boston). Offers condolences of Mr. Sewall's death. I will soon be able to tell you when I can come to Indianapolis. The 10th meeting of our association is over. Speaks of daughter (Mano) and her schools - she wants to be a missionary to her own country. And now our dear sister Frances Willard has gone. Pundita Ramabai, Indian educator. After being widowed and left with a baby girl and no male relatives to support her, she went to England, eventually becoming a professor of Sanskrit at the Ladies' College at Cheltenham. While visiting the United States she began a study of the public school system, believing she could apply the same principles in her homeland. Upon returning to India, she opened a school to educate high-caste Hindu child-widows, young girls who, without husbands, would normally face lives of misery. By 1898, 350 child-widows had passed through her school. Appointed representative of the national woman's councils "idea" in India.
Correspondent: Ramabai Sarasvati, Pandita, 1858-1922
Date: 1898-03-17; 1898
Time period: 1890s (1890-1899); 19th century;
Subject: Sewall, May Wright, 1844-1920; Ramabai Sarasvati, Pandita, 1858-1922; Social reformers--India; Educators--India; Feminists--India
Genre: Correspondence;
Collection: May Wright Sewall Papers
Copyright information: This item is in the public domain.
Physical repository: Indianapolis Special Collections Room, Indianapolis Public Library
Repository collection name: May Wright Sewall letters
Digital publisher: Indianapolis Marion County Public Library
Date digitized: 2005
Repository: The Indianapolis Public Library Digital Collections
Source: From: May Wright Sewall Papers
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