Rama's Labyrinth: A Biographical Novel

"Wagner-Wright's novel is an informative exploration of one of history's many forgotten heroines." —Kirkus "... a thoroughly convincing dramatic take on a strand of Indian history rarely touched on in fiction." —Historical Novel Society "Cleanly written, subtle in the treatment of intimacies, with excellent sensorial immediacy, Rama's Labyrinth is a weekend's engaging pursuit. Five Stars." —San Francisco Book Review Educated and inquisitive, Pandita Ramabai was born in 1858 near Gangamul in the Western Ghat mountains of southern India. The daughter of a Sanskrit scholar, she rose to become a respected scholar herself, in a time when women rarely held such positions. But having lost nearly everyone she loved to famine or cholera, Rama spent most of her life in search of a community she could call home. A widow and single mother, she became a social activist and reformer, relentlessly advocating for the education of women and the care of India’s many poor, widowed child-brides. Rama’s jo