The correct option is Kaisar-e-Hind.
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Pandita Ramabai
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Pandita Ramabai was honored by the British Colonial Government of India in 1919 with the highest award "Kaiser-E-Hind" for her exemplary contribution to society.
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She is the only woman who has been conferred with the title 'Pandita' for her extraordinary command over Sanskrit.
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Pandita Ramabai was born on 23 April 1858, in Canara District in present-day Karnataka, in a Marathi-speaking Brahmin family, as Rama Dongre.
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She married Bipin Behari Medhvi, a Bengali lawyer, who belonged to a lower caste.
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In 1882 Ramabai lost her husband to cholera. She educated her only daughter, Manorama. all by herself.
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She traveled to the United States in 1886 to attend the graduation of her relative and India’s first female Indian doctor, Anandibai Joshi. She stayed back for two years, translated textbooks, and delivered lectures across the U.S. and Canada.
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In 1896, during a severe famine, Ramabai toured the villages of Maharashtra with a caravan of bullock carts rescuing thousands of children, child widows, orphans, and destitute women and bringing them to the shelter of the Mukti mission.
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In 1889, she founded the Sharda Sadan for the education of widows and other women.
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By 1900, there were 1,500 residents and over a hundred cattle in the Mukti mission. The Pandita Ramabai Mukti Mission is still active today, providing housing, education, and vocational training to widows, orphans, and those with sight impairments.
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Kaisar-i-Hind Medal
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The Kaisar-i-Hind Medal was a medal awarded by the Emperor of India between 1900 and 1947, to any person who shall have distinguished himself by important and useful service in the advancement of the public interest in India.
Pandita Ramabai (1858-1922): Pioneering women's rights reformer. Founded Arya Mahila Samaj (1882), Sharada Sadan (1889), and Mukti Sadan at Kedgaon. Awarded Kaiser-i-Hind Gold Medal in 1919 for her community and educational services.