{"product_id":"9780253109651","title":"Pandita Ramabai's American Encounter: The Peoples of the United States (1889)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"... [A] rare and remarkable insight into an Indian woman's take on\u003cbr\u003e American culture in the 19th century, refracted through her own experiences with\u003cbr\u003e British colonialism, Indian nationalism, and Christian culture on no less than three\u003cbr\u003e continents.... a fabulous resource for undergraduate teaching.\" -- Antoinette Burton\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the 1880s, Pandita Ramabai traveled from India to England and\u003cbr\u003e then to the U.S., where she spent three years immersed in the milieu of progressive\u003cbr\u003e social reform movements of the day. Born into a Brahmin family and widowed while\u003cbr\u003e still young, she converted to Christianity while in England. In India, she was an\u003cbr\u003e activist for the education of women and the improvement of the status of widows.\u003cbr\u003e Abroad, she was iconized as a champion of the \"oppressed Hindu woman.\" The\u003cbr\u003e Peoples of the United States is Ramabai's comprehensive description of American\u003cbr\u003e life, ranging from government to economy, education to domestic activity. As an\u003cbr\u003e account of a Western society by an Indian woman and a feminist, it reverses the\u003cbr\u003e established equation of male, Orientalist travel narratives. First published in\u003cbr\u003e Marathi in 1889, it is offered here in an elegant and engaging English translation\u003cbr\u003e by Meera Kosambi, who also provides a critical introduction and extensive\u003cbr\u003e annotations.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Indiana University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47084694503664,"sku":"9780253109651","price":23.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780253109651_p0.jpg?v=1763681115","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780253109651","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}