Modern History Prelims Question

In 1910, Sarla Devi Chaudhurani convened the first meeting of the Bharat Stree Mahamandal in Allahabad. Considered as the first major Indian women’s organisation set up by a woman, its objectives included promotion of education for women, abolition of the purdah system and improvement in the socio-economic and political status of women all over India. Sarla Devi believed that the men working for women’s upliftment lived ‘under the shade of Manu’.
Ramabai Ranade founded the Ladies Social Conference (Bharat Mahila Parishad), under the parent organisation National Social Conference, in 1904 in Bombay.
Pandita Ramabai Saraswati founded the Arya Mahila Samaj to serve the cause of women. She pleaded for improvement in the educational syllabus of Indian women before the English Education Commission, which was referred to Queen Victoria. This resulted in medical education for women, which started in Lady Dufferin College. Later Ramabai Ranade established a branch of Arya Mahila Samaj in Bombay.
Kadambini Ganguly was in the first woman in the British Empire to receive a BA, thus also the first woman graduate of Calcutta University. She was also one of first lady doctors of India. She was the first doctor of Bengal and the first woman delegate to address the Indian National Congress.

In 1910, Sarla Devi Chaudhurani convened the first meeting of the Bharat Stree Mahamandal in Allahabad. Considered as the first major Indian women’s organisation set up by a woman, its objectives included promotion of education for women, abolition of the purdah system and improvement in the socio-economic and political status of women all over India. Sarla Devi believed that the men working for women’s upliftment lived ‘under the shade of Manu’.
Ramabai Ranade founded the Ladies Social Conference (Bharat Mahila Parishad), under the parent organisation National Social Conference, in 1904 in Bombay.
Pandita Ramabai Saraswati founded the Arya Mahila Samaj to serve the cause of women. She pleaded for improvement in the educational syllabus of Indian women before the English Education Commission, which was referred to Queen Victoria. This resulted in medical education for women, which started in Lady Dufferin College. Later Ramabai Ranade established a branch of Arya Mahila Samaj in Bombay.
Kadambini Ganguly was in the first woman in the British Empire to receive a BA, thus also the first woman graduate of Calcutta University. She was also one of first lady doctors of India. She was the first doctor of Bengal and the first woman delegate to address the Indian National Congress.

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