Pandita Ramabai: In 19th century, the women s rights activist was received like a celebrity in US scroll.in - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from scroll.in Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Emma May Buckingham was an author of the late 19th century who in her first novel championed the cause of elevating womanhood in a male-dominated society.
Image: Chris Duckett/ZDNet
In 1836, the Scottish geologist, chemist, and agricultural improver Sir George Stewart Mackenzie was concerned about what he called the recent atrocities of violent crime in the British penal colony of New South Wales, Australia.
The root cause, he thought, was a failure to manage which criminals were transported to work in the colony especially the two-thirds of convicts who worked for private masters. At present they are shipped off, and distributed to the settlers, without the least regard to their characters or history, Mackenzie wrote in a representation [PDF] to Britain s Secretary for the Colonies, Lord Glenelg.