Pandita Ramabai

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. In her Famine Experiences in India Pandita Ramabai gives a touching account of the closing years of those wanderings. She writes: My recol lections carry me back to the hard times, some twenty-two years ago. The last great famine of Madras Presidency reached its climax in the years 1876-77, but it began at least three years before that time. I was in my teens then, and so thoroughly ignorant of the outside world that I cannot remembei observing other people's condition, yet saw enough of distress, in our own and a few other families, to realize the hard-heartedness of unchanged human nature.