Acknowledging that ‘Christ was truly the divine Saviour’, she was baptised. In particular, the story of the Samaritan woman in John 4 impacted her. In the community’s London Rescue Home, she saw first-hand how women who had fallen on hard times were helped. In 1883, Pandita Ramabai travelled to England for her studies and was invited to stay at an Anglican community. She learnt English, started to write, and met, among others, theologian Nehemiah Goreh, who helped her to an understanding of the Christian faith. The longing for social reform that would improve the lot of women in areas such as child marriage and literacy and education grew ever stronger in Ramabai. So Ramabai was left in the worst of all positions in the India of that time: an orphan, a widow and a single mother. ![]() ![]() They had a daughter, and then her husband died too. But in doing so, she was held to have polluted herself, for he was from the lower Shudra caste. Alone in the world, she married a friend of her brother. Pandita Ramabai and her daughter, Manorama Bai, in a 1911 publication The worst position
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