Discuss the ways in which Ramabai , brings up travails and sufferings of high upper- caste women.
Discuss the ways in which Ramabai , brings up travails and sufferings of high upper- caste women.
Ramabai was born on 23rd April 1858 in a High Caste Hindu Brahmin family. She never went to school but learnt to read and write from her parents, Anantha Shastri Dongre(a renowned Sanskrit Scholar) and Laxmibai. She was made to experience the need for and value of knowledge, self respect, dignity and hard work, which she maintained throughout her life. But Ramabai’s parents did not like their children to come in contact with the outside world, but Ramabai realized that just their parents education and virtues given to her would not offer her decent life. After the death of the parents, Ramabai and her brother went to Calcutta. There she was given the title ‘Pandita’ because she could read and write Sanskrit, a remarkable achievement as women then were not allowed such knowledge.
While wandering from place to place, Ramabai had free access to the homes of the high-caste Hindus, saw the home life in all its cruel details, and resolved to devote her life to the redemption of her unfortunate sisters, especially the child-widows. She overcame the many prejudices of Indian Society to help downtrodden and fallen women.
She even set her life as an example for High Caste Hindu women and for all caste women also by following her heart and proceeded to a life free of both patriarchies, whether born and bred in the Hindu texts or in the Christian Church. In a way, she Indianized Christianity for the benefit of Indian Women and widows in particular. Even though, she being from Brahmin family, after her brother’s demise, she married Bipin Bihari Das Medhavi, an advocate from Shudra Caste. Unfortunately her married life was too short, just after eighteen months, her husband died.
Ramabai’s own life experiences and the superficial ritualistic practices of religion that never addressed the problems of everyday life played a major role in developing her personality and inculcated
Ramabai was born on 23rd April 1858 in a High Caste Hindu Brahmin family. She never went to school but learnt to read and write from her parents, Anantha Shastri Dongre(a renowned Sanskrit Scholar) and Laxmibai. She was made to experience the need for and value of knowledge, self respect, dignity and hard work, which she maintained throughout her life. But Ramabai’s parents did not like their children to come in contact with the outside world, but Ramabai realized that just their parents education and virtues given to her would not offer her decent life. After the death of the parents, Ramabai and her brother went to Calcutta. There she was given the title ‘Pandita’ because she could read and write Sanskrit, a remarkable achievement as women then were not allowed such knowledge.
While wandering from place to place, Ramabai had free access to the homes of the high-caste Hindus, saw the home life in all its cruel details, and resolved to devote her life to the redemption of her unfortunate sisters, especially the child-widows. She overcame the many prejudices of Indian Society to help downtrodden and fallen women.
She even set her life as an example for High Caste Hindu women and for all caste women also by following her heart and proceeded to a life free of both patriarchies, whether born and bred in the Hindu texts or in the Christian Church. In a way, she Indianized Christianity for the benefit of Indian Women and widows in particular. Even though, she being from Brahmin family, after her brother’s demise, she married Bipin Bihari Das Medhavi, an advocate from Shudra Caste. Unfortunately her married life was too short, just after eighteen months, her husband died.
Ramabai’s own life experiences and the superficial ritualistic practices of religion that never addressed the problems of everyday life played a major role in developing her personality and inculcated