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Ramabai Ranade

How Ramabai Ranade is discussed in this archive

Subject of 1 profile piece — including Women and Liberalism : The Life of Ramabai Ranade .

Referenced in 2 other works — including The Resolute Abala Bose: Educationist, Suffragist, Philanthropist , and Two Strands of Liberal Expression : Dr. Anandibai Joshi and Lakshmibai Tilak .

In The Resolute Abala Bose: Educationist, Suffragist, Philanthropist : Ramabai Ranade is named as a fellow member of the suffragist delegation that secured women's franchise rights in the Montagu-Chelmsford negotiations.

In Two Strands of Liberal Expression : Dr. Anandibai Joshi and Lakshmibai Tilak : Ramabai Ranade is named as one of the contemporaneous women reformers working for women's emancipation through education in the same intellectual milieu as the two protagonists.

About Ramabai Ranade (1)

Profile pieces (1)

  • Women and Liberalism : The Life of Ramabai Ranade
    • "Ramabai Ranade was born on 25 January 1863 in the Kurlekar family, in Maharashtra. Albeit living in an era when women's education was not considered important, Ramabai was able to educate herself with the active support and encouragement of her husband, M G Ranade." — establishes her social background and the context of her education
    • "A distinctively liberal feature of Ramabai's work is how all women, despite their social or economic background, were accepted in the Seva Sadan." — identifies her institution's inclusive, non-discriminatory character as a liberal hallmark

Mentioned in (2)

Opinion pieces (1)

  • The Resolute Abala Bose: Educationist, Suffragist, Philanthropist
    • "The delegation, which included suffragists such as Sarojini Naidu, Margaret Cousins, Ramabai Ranade, and Dorothy Jinarajadasa, contributed to women in India being first granted the right to vote in 1921, in Madras." — identifies Ramabai Ranade as a fellow suffragist in the key franchise delegation

Excerpts (1)