“In carrying out the work of female education great impediments, some of them of an almost insuperable character, had to be overcome, and many defects had to be rectified.”

— Keshub Chunder Sen

Speech delivered at the East India Association, London, on 13th May 1870. See Female Education in India for full speech.

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