Name variations: Ramabai Medhavi; Saraswati or Sarasvati. One of the consequences of this was a conviction of the power …

Pandita Ramabai was by now full of plans for reforms in India, and spent much of her time in America (and briefly in Canada) fund-raising. They experienced an amazing Pentecostal outpouring of the Holy Spirit. A Brahmin woman from a highly respected family in India, after her orthodox learning, someone who championed for widow women’s emancipation, had converted to … Pandita Ramabai's feminist and Christian conversions. Both Ramabai and her brother were taken care of and paid for their efforts by the Brahmins of that time. Source: ... she ‘was led by the Lord to start a prayer circle’. At the age of 12 she had memorized thousands of sacred verses from the Hindu sacred scriptures and gained exceptional knowledge of the Hindu language. Pandita Ramabai Sarasvati (23 April 1858 – 5 April 1922) was an Indian social reformer, a pioneer in the education and emancipation of women in India. BibTex; Full citation; Abstract . Pandita Ramabai was a social reformer in nineteenth-century British India. Ramabai tells of how, in 1905, she ‘was led by the Lord to start a prayer circle’.

But after Ramabai’s radical conversion, the work of the school was never the same. Pandita Ramabai's name stands out as exemplary of women's participation in nationalist and colonial debates in late 19th-century India. Pandita Ramabai was born in 1858 and orphaned in the famine of 1876-7. Some of the women who had only come for the Bible reading portion of the Ramabai’s family prayers now began to stay and kneel down with Ramabai as she poured out her fervent prayers to her newfound personal Lord and Savior. In September 1883 Pandita Ramabai converted to Christianity. Transcultural conversion: The life of Pandita Ramabai (1858–1922) By Maya Burger. The conversion created shockwaves throughout India. At the age of 13, the country went through a great famine and her parents became ill. Pandita Ramabai never styled herself as a missionary, even after her conversion, despite others pressuring her to do so. Ramabai was considering converting to Christianity and so the Society of St John the Evangelist at Poona made arrangements for her to go to England to answer her questions about the Christian faith. In 1883, Ramabai arrived in Wantage to stay with the community of St … Source for information on Ramabai, Pandita (1858–1922): Women in World History: A Biographical Encyclopedia dictionary. ... Chapter 4 In Outside the Fold: Conversion, Modernity, and Belief. Download PDF (4 MB) Cite . Islamic Review. She offered an unyielding critique of Hindu orthodoxy, caste and patriarchy and argued that education would raise the status of Hindu women. Other names: The Islamic Review and Muslim India. Shortly after her "true conversion", Pandita Ramabai began a faith mission for the girls and widows of India. Ramabai, Dongre Medhavi [Pandita Ramabai Sarasvati] (1858-1922) Indian Christian social reformer, educator and Bible translator. Pandita Ramabai (23 April 1858, Karnataka- 5 April 1922) was an Indian Christian who tried to change many things in India. When a great famine came to India, Pandita went to refugee camps and saved widows and girls from death or abuse. She came from a Marathi Brahmin family and was married in 1880 to a Brahmo Samajist, Bipin Behari Das Medhavi.He died nineteen months later, leaving her widowed with a baby daughter.