What is Pandita Ramabai?
{{Infobox Person | name = Pandita Ramabai | image = Pandita Ramabai.png | file = | caption = Christian social reformer | birth_date = April 23, 1858 | birth_place = Karnataka, India | death_date = April 5, 1922 | death_place = Maharastra }} '''Pandita Ramabai''' (23 April 1858, [[Karnataka]] – 5 April 1922) was an [[India]]n [[Christianity|Christian]] who tried to change many things in India. A [[poem|poet]] and scholar, she tried hard to improve (make better) the lives of women in India. She wrote many books, such as her popular ''The high -Caste Indian Woman'', which showed the troubles of child wives and women in India. == Conversion == She was born in Gangamoola, in the Mala village, in Karkala Taluk, in the [[Karnataka]] State of India. Her father's name was Ananta Shastri. She lost her parents (Laxmi Bai) early. She travelled to Kolkata with her brother. There, she received (got) a Pandita and a Sarasvathi Award for her expertise in Sanskrit Poetry. Born in the home of an important scholar named Brahmin, Pandita Ramabai had more freedom than many Indian women. Her father taught her and her mother to read Sanskrit writing.<ref name=sweet>{{cite book |last= Koontz |first= Terri |author2= Mark Sidwell, and S.M.Bunker |title= World Studies for Christian Schools |publisher= Bob Jones University Press |date= June 2005|location= Greenville, South Carolina |page= |isbn= 1-59166-431-4}}</ref> She then began to study [[Christianity]] in [[India]], and later in [[England]].<ref name=sweet/> She decided that it was the best [[religion]]; that she should be a Christian. However, she had not yet received Jesus into her ''heart''.<ref name=sweet/> Ramabai later said, {{Quote|It was nobody's fault that I had not found Christ...my mind at that time had been too dull to grasp (understand) the teaching of the...open [[Bible]]...I had given much of my time to the study of other books about the Bible, and had not studied the Bible itself as I should have done. Hence (because of this) my [[wikt:ignorance|igno