page_title: Pandita Ramabai
hierarchical_section_title: Pandita Ramabai
caption_attribution_description: English: Portrait of Pandita Ramabai Sarasvati 1858-1922, frontispiece from book
context_page_description: Pandita Ramabai Sarasvati female feminist, women's right & education activist, a pioneer in the education and emancipation of women in India, and a social reformer. She was the first woman to be accorded the titles of Pandita as a Sanskrit scholar and Sarasvati after being examined by the faculty of the University of Calcutta. She was one of the 10 women delegates of the Congress session of 1889. In the late 1890s, she founded Mukti Mission at Kedgaon village, forty miles east of the city of Pune. The mission was later named Pandita Ramabai Mukti Mission.
context_section_description: Pandita Ramabai Sarasvati (23 April 1858 – 5 April 1922) female feminist, women's right & education activist, a pioneer in the education and emancipation of women in India, and a social reformer. She was the first woman to be accorded the titles of Pandita as a Sanskrit scholar and Sarasvati after being examined by the faculty of the University of Calcutta. She was one of the 10 women delegates of the Congress session of 1889. In the late 1890s, she founded Mukti Mission at Kedgaon village,  forty miles east of the city of Pune. The mission was later named Pandita Ramabai Mukti Mission.
caption: Pandita Ramabai Sarasvati
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