Pandita Ramabai was a tireless advocate for the importance of education (both secular and religious) for women, and Indian self-reliance. Fifty-five years after her death, A. B. Shah called her "the greatest woman produced by modern India and one of the greatest Indians in all history."

She published in English, Marathi, Hindi and Sanskrit, and her writing was largely tied to her reform work. Her publications include several non-fiction books, pamphlets, and letters on aspects of Indian womanhood, education, and religion in the late nineteenth to early twentieth century, as well as poetry, hymns, music, travel books and a translation of the
Bible into Marathi.
Milestones
By December 1889 Yunaited Stetsci lokasthiti ani pravasavrtta (
The Peoples of the United States) was published in
Bombay(now Mumbai),
India. It was PR's last major work on female education and her longest travel writing.

1922, 1924 PR's final, massive work, published posthumously, was a Marathi version of the entire
Bible: the
Old Testament appeared in 1922 and the
New Testament in 1924.
