Multiple contestations

Pandita Ramabai, a Brahmin scholar of repute, converted to Christianity during her visit to England for higher studies in the 1880s. Her encounter with Christianity and the Anglican Church, within the imperial, Orientalist and patriarchal framework, was problematic. But Ramabai found her new religion to be a source of spiritual sustenance and basis for an international network of Christian women and men who aided her ambitious residential school for Hindu widows. Ramabai's contestation of the Hindu religion and patriarchy, however, extracted a heavy price in her being socially marginalised and erased from the official histories of Western India. This article explores Ramabai's trail of multiple contestations through the Indian Hindu and imperial Christian terrains to reach her goal of women's empowerment through education

Christianity · Empowerment · Hinduism · Orientalism · Patriarchy · Political science · Sociology · Sustenance · American Constitutional Law and Politics · Gender Studies · History · Law · Philosophy · Religion, Gender, and Enlightenment · Religion, Society, and Development · Religious Education and Schools · Religious studies

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