Question

Who was the first Indian women author known for feminist writing?
A. Pandita Ramabai
B. Meera Kosambi
C. Sharmila Rege
D. Tarabai Shinde

Answer 1

Hint:
All are women based activists working for women in the society. Also all have worked for women betterment with the writing work.

Complete step by step solution:
Pandita Ramabai was born in the forest area of Ganamal in Maharashtra. She was a high caste Hindu Brahmin. She was a social reformer and always willing to educate the girls. He was very learned in Sanskrit and he also read the Puranas in temples for her livelihood.
Meera Kosambi is the author of many books and articles on urban sociology and also on women's studies in India. She did many translation and editing work of the autobiography and scholarly writings of her grandfather.

Sharmila Rege was the Sociologist, feminist scholar, writer as well as the activist was successfully bringing the structural violence of the caste. She was always connected with the labour class women. She made the KS Phule Women's Studies Centre of the Pune University as the hub for creating the bilingual system of teaching and training.

Tarabai Shinde was born in Buldhana. Maharashtra. She wrote many books and she was the first author known for her feminist writing. Her work "stri" is for the comparison between men and women. It was considered as one of the country's modern feminist.

Hence, the correct answer is option D.

Additional Information: Tarabai Shinde was having her life span from 1850 to 1910, lived in obscurity as a member of the socially elite Marathi. It was the warrior peasant community caste in a small town called Buldhana in Maharashtra.

Note:
Tarabai Shinde was a women's right's activist. She protested the patriarchy. In her first published work, she made a comparison between Women and Men. That work had proved her as the country's first modern feminist text.