Letter from Pundita Ramabai to May Wright Sewall.

Description:	(India). Comments about May Wright Sewalls school and girls. Also comments about my school which is going well but sometimes the sky seems very dark. She and her daughter enjoyed Little Lord Fauntleroy that Mrs. Sewalls class sent. Thank you for it.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:	1891-07-02; 1891
Created By:	Ramabai Sarasvati, Pandita, 1858-1922
Source:	http://www.digitalindy.org/cdm/ref/collection/mws/id/988
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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