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About The Book : The most difficult task of my life lay before me when I undertook to write the Life of Anandabai Joshee. In copying letters or using material furnished by those who loved her, I have been obliged to moderate the terms of affection and admiration which would have seemed extravagant to those who never saw her, or saw her only after her star "drooped toward its setting." Its rapid sale will reward then in the best way for all the self- sacrifice, hard labor, and bitter grief which their devotion has involved, for we hope through that, to aid the projects of her friend and cousin, the Pundita Eamabai Sarasvati. To speak properly of the history of the peoples or languages of Hindustan requires a profound scholarship, which I am far from claiming; but a few words concerning it were necessary before we could enter on the life of Anandabai Joshee.