The High Caste Hindu Woman

The High Caste Hindu Woman also provides the author an occasion to lash out at the ruthless social custom which, perpetuated through centuries by the Hindu priesthood and male chauvinism. brought immeasurable pain, degradation and misery on countless women. Pundita Ramabai was not by nature an iconoclast. She was attached to the country of her birth by a pure, strong love. But her love had reached the height where it was akin to the motive of the skilled surgeon; she dared to inflict pain because she regarded pain as affording the only sure means of relief.

The author has exercised great care in securing correctness in her quotations,  diligently comparing translations where more than one were available, and in some cases making the translations herself from the original Sanskrit.