Pandita ramabai ranade biography of barack
Ramabai ranade information in marathi.
A social worker, one of the first women’s rights activists and a political activist, Ramabai Ranade (1863-1924) was an exceptional woman.
Pandita ramabai biography pdf
She was born in the Kurlekar family in Sangli, Maharashtra. Though married at the young age of 11 to a man 21 years her senior, she went on to live an exemplary life, educating herself and working for the cause of women.
Her husband, MG Ranade was a social and educational reformer, and one of the founders of the Prarthana Samaj.
He encouraged her to study and found an enthusiastic pupil in her, teaching her Marathi, English, Geography, Indian History and Science. She wrote of the inspiration and support her husband provided in her autobiography- Amchya Ayushtyatil Kanhi Athawani (Himself: The Autobiography of a Hindu Lady, translated in English by Katherine van Akin Gates).
From 1880s onwards she started actively getting involved with the Prarthana Samaj, which provided the initial ideological and social set up of liberal ideas to Ranade