Rani Chennamma of Kittur#Rani
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#Rani
Rani Chennamma of Kittur · 1778–1829
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Who this is
Sanskrit scholarship, education, social reform — principal of Sanskrit College, architect of the Bengali primer, and leader of the widow-remarriage campaign.
“The gentlest Bengali of his century was also the hardest to move: a pandit in a plain shawl and slippers who forced open the Sanskrit college to lower castes, forced widow remarriage into law, gave away nearly everything he earned, lost his biggest campaign, and walked away from Calcutta to run a free clinic among the Santals.”
The big idea, in the book's words:
“If society quotes scripture to justify cruelty, out-read it. Vidyāsāgar beat the orthodoxy at its own texts to make widow remarriage legal in 1856 — and taught all of Bengal to read while he was at it.”
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