Pandita Ramabai's American Encounter: The Peoples of the United States (1889)

Cover

Pandita Ramabai’s American Encounter Frontis: Pandita Ramabai with her daughter Manorama in England, 1886. Photo courtesy archives of Pandita Ramabai Mukti Mission. Pandita Ramabai’s American Encounter The Peoples of the United States (1889) by pandita ramabai Translated and edited by Meera Kosambi This book is a publication of Indiana University Press 601 North Morton Street Bloomington, IN 47404-3797 USA http://iupress.indiana.edu Telephone orders 800-842-6796 Fax orders 812-855-7931 Orders by e-mail iuporder@indiana.edu© 2003 by Meera Kosambi All rights reserved No part of this book may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher. The Association of American University Presses’ Resolution on Permissions constitutes the only exception to this prohibition. The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information Sciences—Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1984. Manufactured in the United States of America Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Ramabai Sarasvati, Pandita, 1858–1922 Pandita Ramabai’s American encounter : the peoples of the United States (1889) / by Pandita Ramabai ; translated and edited by Meera Kosambi. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-253-34190-6 (cloth : alk. paper) — ISBN 0-253-21571-4 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Women social reformers—India—Maharashtra. 2. Ramabai Sarasvati, Pandita, 1858–1922—Journeys—United States. 3. United States—Description and travel. I. Kosambi, Meera. II. Title. HQ1744.M33 R34 2003 303.48′4′092—dc21 2002006851 1 2 3 4 5 08 07 06 05 04 03 To the memory of my grandfather, Professor Dharmanand Kosambi & my father, Professor D.D. Kosambi who were involved in the academic life of the USA, mainly through Harvard University, during a major part of the twentieth century ...