Details
Creator Gutekunst, Frederick, 1831-1917, photographer.
Title Pundita Ramabai and her little girl [graphic] / F. Gutekunst, 712 Arch St., Philadelphia.
Publisher Philadelphia
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1887
Date [ca. 1887]
Physical Description 1 photograph : albumen on card mount ; mount 11 x 17 cm (4.25 x 6.5 in.) (cabinet card format)
Description Full-length portrait of Pandita Ramabai Sarasvati, the Indian social reformer, educator, and Bible translator, with her daughter Manorama Medhavi. Ramabai wears her dark hair parted in the middle and tied back and is attired in a light-colored dress and a long shawl draped over her shoulder and lap. Her daughter Manorama wears her dark hair parted in the middle and curled with a headband and is attired in a long-sleeved dress with embroidered leaves decorating the collar, chest, cuffs, waist, and hem; dark-colored stockings; and button-up boots. Ramabai is seated, and Manorama stands in the left and leans and places her hands on her mother's lap. Ramabai's left hand holds Manorama's left wrist. Both look slightly to the left. Pandita Ramabai Sarasvati was born into a Brahmin family in India. She became a Sanskrit scholar, and in 1878, Calcutta University conferred on her the titles of Pandita and Sarasvati in recognition of her knowledge of various Sanskrit works. She married Bipin Behari Medhvi, a Bengali lawyer, who died in 1882. She traveled to Britain and converted to Christianity. She toured and lectured in the United States and Canada raising money for destitute Indian women. She advocated for women's rights and opened Mukti Mission, a school for child-widows. Manorama Medhavi was educated at the Community of St. Mary the Virgin, Chesbrough Seminary, and earned a degree from Bombay University. She assisted her mother at the Mukti Mission until her death in 1921.
Notes Title and date from manuscript note written on verso.
Photographer's imprint printed on mount under the image and on verso.
Printed label on verso: Ramabai's Daughter. Manorama, the daughter of Pundita Ramabai, who returned to India last fall, has become her mother's prime minister. Manorama has graduated in June 1900, at the A.M. Chessborough Seminary, North Chili, N.Y. She was at the head of her class, received honors, and was awarded the prize by the board of regents of New York University. Professor and Mrs. Roberts, principals of the seminary, speak with unqualified praise of her ability, strength of character, good judgment, and devotion to her chosen work. Her self-poise and yet utter unconsciousness of self charmed all who met her. She has joined in her mother's work for child-widows with a spirit of consecration and a degree of energy remarkable in a girl not yet out of her teens. -- Woman's Journal.
Subject Ramabai Sarasvati, 1858-1922 -- Portraits.
Medhavi, Manorama, 1881-1921 -- Portraits.
Girls.
Scholars.
Social reformers -- India.
South Asians -- Portraits.
Women's rights -- India.
AAPI.
Genre Albumen prints -- 1880-1890.
Cabinet photographs -- 1880-1890.
Portrait photographs -- 1880-1890.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| cabinet card portraits - sitter - Ramabai [P.8654.4]
Accession number P.8654.4