As We Were a Hundred Years Ago.
The Rev. Edward Everet Hale, of Boston, President of the Ramabai Association, addressed the Ramabai Circle of NewYork at their first public meeting in St. Bartholomew's Church recently. The circle was organised about a year ago to assist the Pundita Ramabai in her work in educating the high - caste widows of India. 'Of the 100,000,000 women in India,' Mr Hale said, * 20,000,000 are widows. Of these, 670,000 are child widows under nineteen years of age. Their condition is deplorable. India is not a country where the men are not ' educated. It is only the women who are in ignorance. Its conditon in this respect does not differ so very much from that whicd prevailed in this country 100 years ago, which we are taught was so much better than that of to-day. What was the state of education among our women 100 years ago ? Where were our female academies? I believe that the next fifty years in India will show a progress commensurate with that this country during the last half century. 1
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Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 387, 24 July 1889, Page 4
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180As We Were a Hundred Years Ago. Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 387, 24 July 1889, Page 4
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