So the three of us together worked on the Marathi adaptation and she wrote the dialogue. He was an important but equally tumultuous influence, often using brute force to get her to study.
He had opinions on why women should be educated, on why the Brahminical system was problematic or how religion was overpowering rationality. She does not hesitate to express herself. She only says what really matters. Gopal, in comparison, is a very aggressive, outspoken person. He decides that it is his mission to provoke people, disturb people, challenge the status quo. A great deal of effort also went into recreating the s.
The Joshis belonged to a land-owning family in Kalyan — today, a Mumbai suburb — that fell upon difficult times but retained much of their social status. When she punished me, she was wont to use not just a small rope or thong, but always stones, sticks, and live charcoal. Fortunately, my body does not bear any scars, and her severe beatings did not leave me maimed, crippled, or deformed. Her father, in contrast, was affectionate and introduced her to education.
Kosambi notes that this might well have been a way to tame the mischievous child rather than a progressive impulse. For, Ganpatrao did not hesitate in marrying off his young daughter at the age of nine to a man 17 years her senior, as tradition demanded. Later, after her marriage, when husband Gopalrao insisted on educating her, Ganpatrao discouraged him.
He agreed to take a child bride on the condition that he be allowed to educate her. Over the years, they moved from city to city, including Bhuj, Mumbai, Kolhapur and Calcutta, from where she eventually sailed for America at the age of Atre adds that she could write in Devanagri, Modi and Roman scripts.
Gopalrao pushed Anandibai towards education, often personally teaching her, and enrolling her in several schools. But the young girl was taunted on her way to school, ridiculed by passersby and even pelted with pebbles.
More importantly, she did not want to study. It is only when she became a mother at the age of 12, an early and complicated childbirth, and lost her day-old son, that Anandibai took to education. In a letter to Gopalrao written by Anandibai while she was in America around , she speaks of the abuse but without dismissing his contribution to her education. If you ask me, I would answer that it was both.
Hitting me with broken pieces of wood at the tender age of 10, flinging chairs and books at me and threatening to leave me when I was 12, and inflicting other strange punishments on me when I was 14—all these were too severe for the age, body, and mind at each respective stage…. On the contrary, she has a right to allow her husband to do what he wishes and to keep quiet.
Every Hindu husband can, with advantage, learn patience from his wife. I do understand that without you I would never have become what I am now, and I am eternally grateful to you; but you cannot deny that I was always calm. I was born to endure all that. Though apprehensive, Gopalrao convinced her to set an example for other women by pursuing higher education.
On learning of Anandibai's plans to pursue higher education in the West, orthodox Hindu society censured her very strongly. Many Christians supported her decision, but they wanted her to convert to Christianity. Anandi Joshi addressed the community at Serampore College Hall, explaining her decision to go to America and obtain a medical degree. She discussed the persecution she and her husband had endured.
She stressed the need for Hindu female doctors in India, and talked about her goal of opening a medical college for women in India. She also pledged that she would not convert to Christianity. Her speech received publicity, and financial contributions started pouring in from all over India. Anandi Joshi traveled to New York from Calcutta by ship, chaperoned by two English female acquaintances of the Thorborns. Anandi Joshi wrote to the Women's Medical College of Pennsylvania, asking to be admitted to their medical program, which was the second women's medical program in the world.
Rachel Bodley, the dean of the college, enrolled her. Anandi Joshi began her medical education at age Even then I wish to give you one hundred rupees.
Joshi came back to India in with the dream of opening a medical college for women. She got a grand welcome and the princely state of Kolhapur appointed her as physician-in-charge of the female ward of the local Albert Edward Hospital. However, Anandi passed away at a young age of just 22 years due to tuberculosis on February 26, Interestingly, a crater on Venus is also named after her. Click here to join our channel indianexpress and stay updated with the latest headlines.
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