At the age of 11, she was married to Justice Mahadev Govind Ranade, who was a distinguished Indian scholar and social reformer.

Ramabai, soon after her marriage, started to learn reading and writing with strong support and encouragement from Mahadev Govind Ranade.

[1] Inspired by her husband, Ramabai started 'Hindu Ladies Social Club' in Mumbai to develop public speaking among women.

After the death of her husband, Ramabai devoted the rest of her life to the betterment of women's lives mainly through the activities 'Seva Sadan Society' in Mumbai and Pune.

In 1873, at the age of 11, she was married to Justice Mahadev Govind Ranade, a widower who was twenty years older than her, and a pioneer of India's social reform movement.

With his strong support and sharing his visionary path, Ramabai spent all her life making women self-reliant and economically independent.

He not only worked as the Professor of English and Economics at the Elphinstone College in Bombay, but was also as an oriental translator and a social reformer.

[4] Justice Ranade gave regular lessons to young Ramabai in writing and reading Marathi, History, Geography, Mathematics, and English.

She established the Hindu Ladies Social and Literary Club in Bombay and started a number of classes to train women in languages, general knowledge, tailoring and handwork.

At that time at the urging of Ramakrishna Gopal Bhandarkar and Mr. Bhajekar, she chaired the first session of Bharat Mahila Parishad (India Women Conference) held in Bombay in 1904.

Even in the final years of her life, she went to Alandi at the time of Ashadhi and Kartiki fairs, with volunteers from the Seva Sadan, to render help to women pilgrims visiting the shrine of Sant Dnyaneshwar.

In 1920 at the height of Non-cooperation movement led by Mahatma Gandhi, Ramabai even learned how to run a cotton spinning charkha.

It was largely owing to Ramabai's initiatives, guidance, and exertions that Seva Sadan found a footing and grew so rapidly in spite of prevailing prejudices.

The singular position, which she assumed at the end of her life deserved Mahatma Gandhi's tribute to her as quoted: "The death of Ramabai Ranade is a great national loss.

How can those be considered as educated who not only do not extend sympathy to their unfortunate sisters who have fallen victims to cruel fate and merciless social customs, but find it fit to heap ridicule on them.

All these efforts took shape in establishing the Seva Sadan Society in Bombay, which substituted as a home for a number of distressed women.

[11] In her honour, the Indo-Australian Post issued a Postage stamp picturing Ramabai on 14 August 1962, in her birth centenary year for her great contribution towards the Indian society.

A television series on Zee Marathi named Unch Majha Zoka (roughly translated as 'My Swing Flies High', with an implication of dreaming big in life and striving for it) based on Ramabai's life and her development as a 'women's rights' activist was telecasted in March 2012.