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CFT00039
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Title: Pandita Ramabai Microfiche and Microfilm Collection
Dates: 1858-1922
Collection Number: CFT00039
Creator/Collector:
Ramābāī, Paṇḍitā, 1858-1922
Extent: 910 microfiche, 6 rolls of microfilm
Repository:
Fuller Theological Seminary-David Allan Hubbard Library Archives
Pasadena, California 91182
Abstract: Ramabai Dongre Medhavi, known as Pandita Ramabai (1858-1922), was an Indian evangelist, social reformer, Bible translator
and theologian. She was a noted Sanskrit scholar as a child. Ramabai converted to Christianity in 1883, and became women's
rights and social reform advocate. She developed Mukti, an orphanage and center of refuge for women. The microfiche edition
(910 fiche) of this collection includes unpublished letters, photographs, periodicals, and copies of 249 books that were in
her library and the Ramabai Mukti Mission. The collection also includes 6 rolls of microfilm, the records from the Ramabai
Association, the US funding base for Ramabai’s work in the early years.
Language of Material: English
Accessible with general microfiche collections. Scholarly use with parameters of copyright law. Interlibrary loan not available.
All materials herein that are subject to copyright belong to the Pandita Ramabai Mission, Kedgaon, India.
Pandita Ramabai Microfiche and Microfilm Collection. Fuller Theological Seminary-David Allan Hubbard Library Archives
Microfilm/Microfiche acquired in 2003.
Biography/Administrative History
Microfilmed by Schnappsburg University Press (2001). The archive of Pandita Ramabai is located in Kedgaon, India, on the Ramabai
Mukti Mission compound. Copies of the microfilm/microfiche collection are located at multiple institutions including UC Berkeley,
Wheaton College, Regent University, and Yale University. OCLC Number: 47998351
Scope and Content of Collection
The microfiche edition (910 fiche) of this collection includes unpublished letters, photographs, periodicals, and copies of
249 books that were in her library and the Ramabai Mukti Mission. The collection also includes 6 rolls of microfilm, the records
from the Ramabai Association, the US funding base for Ramabai’s work in the early years. It is mostly correspondence including
letters from Ramabai and from her daughter Manorama, with some accounts and other miscellaneous matters. The bulk are from
1887 (roll 1) through 1904 (roll 6). There are a few items from 1908 to 1911 including Psalm 1-4 and Matthew 1 with parsing
and interlinear translations, possibly Ramabai’s work.
Holiness -- Christianity
Pentecostalism
Ramābāī, Paṇḍitā, 1858-1922
Ramabai Mukti Mission
India