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'''Rajkumari Banerji''' or '''Rajkumari Devi''' (1847 — March 8, 1876) was an Indian [[Social work|social worker]] and [[Bengalis|Bengali]] philanthropist. She was the first Indian woman to visit [[England]] in 1871.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://epaperbeta.timesofindia.com/Article.aspx?eid=31815&articlexml=Date-with-History-The-Mysore-Dewan-who-Led-23022017004036|title=Date with History - The Mysore Dewan who Led Cauvery Pact Team 93 Years Ago|last=Divya Shekhar|access-date=March 13, 2018}}</ref>

==Family==
In 1860, Banerji married [[Sasipada Banerji]], a social worker when she was a thirteen-year-old girl. Sasipada taught her to read and write within a year.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.open.ac.uk/researchprojects/makingbritain/content/sasipada-banerji|title=Sasipada Banerji|access-date=March 13, 2018}}</ref> Her son, [[Albion Rajkumar Banerji]], went on to become a member of the [[Indian Civil Service (British India)|Indian Civil Service]] and served as Diwan of [[Cochin]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-features/tp-metroplus/who-is-albion-banerji/article8349759.ece|title=Who is Albion Banerji?|website=thehindu.com|access-date=March 13, 2018}}</ref>

==Works==
Banerji made numerous contributions to women's education of [[Bengal]], [[British India]]. Initially she was enlightened in modern culture by her husband. She completed her basic education after marriage with the help of her husband and thereafter taught children of her family. She was deeply involved with the social reforms and women's education movement after joining in [[Brahmo Samaj]]. [[Mary Carpenter]] came to their house in [[Baranagar]], [[Kolkata]] and Banerji joined her in working for the development of women's education. In 1871, she went to England with Mary Carpenter and returned to [[India]] after eight months.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|title=Sansad Bangali Charitavidhan (Bengali)|last=Subodhchandra Sengupta & Anjali Basu|first=Vol I|publisher=Sahitya Sansad|year=2002|isbn=81-85626-65-0|location=Kolkata|pages=866}}</ref> The ''Asiatic'' of [[London]] declared in 1872 that she was "the first [[Hindu]] lady who has ever visited England".<ref name="publishing.cdlib">{{cite book|last=Burton|first=Antoinette|author-link=Antoinette Burton|title=At the Heart of the Empire|year=1998|publisher=University of California Press|location=Berkeley|pages=51–52|url=http://publishing.cdlib.org/ucpressebooks/view?docId=ft6z09p13n&chunk.id=d0e508&toc.id=&brand=ucpress}}</ref> All her life she was active in promoting the spread of education, visiting many schools, and encouraging funding for the improvement of female education .<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Y4O_DQAAQBAJ&q=Rajkumari+Banerji&pg=PT248|title=The Englishwoman's Review of Social and Industrial Questions: 1872|last=Janet Horowitz Murray, Myra Stark|date=19 December 2016|isbn=9781315411194|access-date=March 13, 2018}}</ref> Banerji and her husband made a shelter for homeless and poor women in their own house.<ref name=":0" />

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