Ancient Indian Education: An Inquiry into its Origin, Development, and Ideals c5.115

c5.115

This was the state of the education of women in India for long centuries, but there were probably always some exceptions to the general rule. The education which certain Muhammadan princesses and other ladies of noble Muhammadan families received is referred to in the chapter on Muhammadan education. There were Hindu ladies also who received the same privileges, and amongst Hindu women who have taken a prominent and vigorous part in state affairs are Chānd Bībī of Ahmadnagar in the sixteenth century, Tārābāī among the Marāthas in the seventeenth, and Ahalya Bāī of Indore in the eighteenth. There have also been poetesses like Mīrā Bāī of the fifteenth century, and Bībī Ratan Kuar of the eighteenth century, both of whom wrote poems in the Hindī language.