Nikambe, Shevantibai M. (b. 1865)
Nikambe, Shevantibai M. (b. 1865)
Indian novelist. Born 1865 in India.
Founded school for high-caste wives, widows, and grown-up Hindu girls; wrote novel Ratanbai: A Sketch of a Bombay High-Caste Hindu Wife (1895), advocating reform in education of women.
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