The High-caste Hindu woman /
Ramabai Sarasvati
- New Delhi : Gyan publishing house, 2023
- 142 pages : frontispiece, plates, portraits ; 20 cm
Ramabai Sarasvati was the first woman of the Brahmin caste to visit the U.S. and attend a medical college (Women's Medical College of Pennsylvania), and receive an M.D. She died only a few years after returning to India to practice medicine. The book was written to appeal to Americans to suppor the education of women in India. (PRBM) Introduction Prefatory remarks Childhood Married life Woman's place in religion and society Widowhood How the condition of women tells upon society The appeal
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Women--India --High-caste Hindu woman.--Ramabai Sarasvati, Pandita, .--1858-1922