Pandita Ramabai and the Famine Roads of Maharashtra

Pandita Ramabai was born into a high-caste Brahmin family in India in 1858 and became one of the most learned women in the country, earning the rare title "Pandita" — scholar. She could have lived comfortably among the intellectual elite. Instead, after coming to faith in Christ, she founded the Sharada Sadan in Pune to educate child widows, girls as young as nine who had been cast out by society after their husbands died.…