Letter from Pundita Ramabai to May Wright Sewall.

Description:	Is going back to India - will see you again in about 11 years. I have to leave my daughter in England until October because the physician has declared her unfit to travel in hot weather. I shall then have time to make preparations for the opening of my school.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 womans councils idea in India.
Origin:	1888-05-26; 1888
Created By:	Ramabai Sarasvati, Pandita, 1858-1922
Source:	http://www.digitalindy.org/cdm/ref/collection/mws/id/828
Collection:	May Wright Sewall Papers
Rights:	http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NKC/1.0/
Copyright:	This item is in the public domain.
Subjects:	Sewall, May Wright, 1844-1920 Ramabai Sarasvati, Pandita, 1858-1922 Social reformers--India Educators--India Feminists--India

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