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 awarded 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.
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23 April 1858 Gangamoola, Karkala, Karnataka, India
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5 April 1922 (aged 63) Bombay Presidency, British India
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