Question

Pick the women writers who hailed from present day Maharashtra:

• A. Rashsundari Debi
• B. Kailashbashini Debi
• C. Tarabai Shinde
• D. Pandita Ramabai

Answer 1

Answer: (C), (D)

The correct options are
C Tarabai Shinde
D Pandita Ramabai

Rashsundari Debi became the first Indian woman to publish a full-length autobiography - Amar Jiban in Bengali. In the 1860s, Bengali women like Kailashbashini Debi started writing. The books detailed how women were treated unfairly. Tarabai Shinde and Pandita Ramabai from present-day Maharashtra highlighted the miseries upper-caste Hindu women had to go through.