Binoy Biswas
Volume-XIV, Issue-I, October 2025
Volume-XIV, Issue-I, October 2025 | ||
Received: 21.10.2025 | Accepted: 29.10.2025 | |||
Published Online: 31.10.2025 | Page No: 134-139 | |||
DOI: 10.64031/pratidhwanitheecho.vol.14.issue.01W.041 | ||||
Pandita Ramabai Saraswati: Nineteenth Century Pioneer of
Women's Liberation, Social Justice and Social Reform
Binoy Biswas, Asst. Prof, Dept. of Political Science, Srikrishna College,
Bagula, Nadia, West Bengal, India | |
Pandita Ramabai Saraswati was a social
reformer in the field of education and emancipation of women. She can be
considered as a pioneer of feminist thought and praxis in the nineteenth
century of Indian context. Her work transcended the geographical and cultural
boundaries and contributed to emancipation of women. She confronted with many
traditional Hindus rules and conservativism. She fought against patriarchal and
exploitative Hindu society and challenged the orthodoxy of Hinduism. She became
the pillar of women’s educational rights and social reforms. She believed that
women can be empowered and emancipated through the power of education. She set
up Arya Mahila Samaj, for addressing child marriage, cruelty against women etc.
She established Sarada Sadan, a school for widows for making widows
self-dependent. She also set up sarada Mukti Mission for women and girls childs
who were victims of famine in 1897 self-dependent by giving industrial
training. Although her contribution was neglected by history but had a deep
impression in women emancipation. She died on 5th April, 1922 | |
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