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SAI INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL
                                                SESSION 2020 – 21
                                                      Class – VII
                                                        CIVICS
                                    CH- 5 : WOMEN CHANGE THE WORLD

                                                  LESSON NOTES


               Sub-Topic 2 : LEARNING FOR CHANGE




           Learning for                 Going to school is an extremely important part of a child’s life.
           change                        In the 19th century, many new ideas about education and
                                         learning emerged.
                                         Schools became more common and communities that had
                                         never learnt reading and writing started sending their children
                                         to school. But there was a lot of opposition to educating girls.

           Pandita Ramabi               Pandita Ramabai never went to school but learnt to read and
                                         write from her parents.
                                        She  was  given  title  ‘Pandita’  because  she  could  read  and
                                         write Sanskrit.
                                        Ramabai set up a Mission in Khedgaon near Pune in 1898,
                                         where widows and poor women were encouraged not only to
                                         become literate but to be independent.
                                        They were taught a variety of skills from carpentry to running a
                                         printing  press,  skills  that  are  not  usually  taught  to  girls  even
                                         today. Ramabai’s Mission is still active today.
           Rashsundari Devi             Rashsundari  Devi  was  a  housewife  from  a  rich  landlord’s
                                         family.
                                        At the age of 60, she wrote her autobiography in Bangla.
                                        At  that  period  it  was  believed  that  learn  to  read  and  write
                                         would  bring  bad  luck  to  her  husband  but  despite  this,  she
                                         taught  herself  how  to  read  and  write  in  secret  after  her
                                         marriage.
                                         Her book titled Amar Jiban is the first known autobiography
                                         written by an Indian woman.
                                         She  wrote  about  her  everyday  life  experiences  in  details  in
                                         her autobiography.
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