Amachya Ayushyatil Kahi Athawani is a book of reminiscences by Ramabai Ranade, published in 1910 in Marathi and translated into English as Ranade : His Wife’s Reminiscences by Kusumvati Deshpande. Although she does speak a little about her childhood, a major portion of her autobiography deals with the life which began at the age of eleven when she got married to the well known scholar, jurist and social reformer Mahadev Govind Ranade. She was born on January 25, 1862 in the family of Kurlekars of the
The nineteenth century witnessed a cultural, religious and literary resurgence in India- the Indian Renaissance. It was a period of great social, cultural and political change. The Europeans, especially the British, who came to trade in India assumed the role of colonisers and greatly influenced the Indian life. Though the British rule caused much destruction to the wealth and culture of India it also brought forth a reawakening of the Indian spirit, with the introduction of the English language