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A portrait of Pandita Ramabai beside the bungalow of her school, printed in brown, with her name in Hindi and English, on a 60 paise stamp.
Pandita Ramabai
India Post issued this 60 paise stamp on 26 October 1989, the centenary year of her school, the Sharada Sadan. The scholars of Calcutta University gave her the titles Saraswati and Pandita for her learning in Sanskrit. Widowed young, she founded the Arya Mahila Samaj for women’s education in Pune in 1882 and the Sharada Sadan in 1889. In the famine of 1896 she went through the villages of Maharashtra by bullock cart and brought thousands of destitute women and children to the shelter of her Mukti Mission. She also translated the Bible into Marathi from Hebrew and Greek.
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