The Indian Scholar Who Sheltered Ten Thousand

In 1896, when famine swept across western India, Pandita Ramabai had already spent a decade rescuing child widows from the streets of Pune. Born into a high-caste Brahmin family, she had lost everything — parents, husband, the privileges of her birth — before she encountered Christ and committed her life to the forgotten girls no one else would claim. When the famine struck, Ramabai did not wait for committees to convene.…