GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

Detailed explanation-1: -Pandita Ramabai, a great scholar of Sanskrit, felt that Hinduism was oppressive towards women, and wrote a book about the miserable lives of upper-caste Hindu women. She founded a widows’ home at Poona to provide shelter to widows who had been treated badly by their husbands’ relatives.

Detailed explanation-2: -Pandita Ramabai Sarasvati was born Ramabai Dongre, a high-caste Brahmin. Her father was a Sanskrit scholar and taught her Sanskrit at home. Orphaned at the age of 16 during the Great Famine (1876–78), Dongre and her brother Srinivas traveled across India reciting Sanskrit scriptures.

Detailed explanation-3: -Pandita Ramabai established one of the country’s first women’s shelters and schools and went around India giving lectures on women’s emancipation. She was the first woman to be awarded the titles of Pandita as a Sanskrit scholar and Sarasvati after being examined by the faculty of the University of Calcutta..