The earliest available text from her literary output was her Sanskrit poem “Lamentation of Divine Language”, submitted to the Oriental Conference at Berlin in 1881 and highlighting the violence of colonialism. Her book “The High-Caste Hindu Woman” was based on the miseries of girls and women in high-caste Hindu families. It is not wrong to say that she entered into the feminist discourse through her book Stri Dharma Niti (Morals for women). This book turned out to be a guide of women’s morality, asking illiterate, ignorant women to recast themselves in a more cultural mould through self-reliance and self-education. Her next academic venture, Cry of Indian Women, more explicitly re fl ected her feminist thinking and her desire to seek gender justice. She is: