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Anandi bai Joshi was born Yamuna, in Kalyan, on 31 March 1865, the fifth of nine children. [2] [3] She was raised in a Marathi Chitpavan Brahmin family [4] [5] [page needed] As was the practice at that time and due to pressure from her mother, she was married at the age of nine to Gopal rao Joshi, a widower almost twenty years her senior. [6]
Rukhmabai (22 November 1864 – 25 September 1955) was an Indian physician and feminist.She is best known for being one of the first practicing women doctors in colonial India (first one being Dr. Kadambini Ganguly who started practicing in 1886) as well as being involved in a landmark legal case involving her marriage as a child bride between 1884 and 1888.
Sophia Louisa Jex-Blake (21 January 1840 – 7 January 1912) was an English physician, teacher, and feminist. [1] She led the campaign to secure women access to a university education, when six other women and she, collectively known as the Edinburgh Seven, began studying medicine at the University of Edinburgh in 1869.
Lady Doctors: The Untold Stories of India's First Women in Medicine is a book about six of India's first Indian female physicians in Western medicine. It was written by journalist, author and lawyer Kavitha Rao , and first published in 2021 by Westland Books in India, and in the UK by Jacaranda Books in 2023.
Sharmila Rege (7 October 1964 – 13 July 2013) [1] was an Indian sociologist, feminist scholar and author of Writing Caste, Writing Gender. [2] She led the Krantijyoti Savitribai Phule Women's Studies Centre, (the department of Gender Studies) at University of Pune which position she occupied since 1991. [3]
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 13 February 2025. Indian historian (born 1931) Romila Thapar Thapar in 2016 Born (1931-11-30) 30 November 1931 (age 93) Lucknow, United Provinces, British India Alma mater Panjab University SOAS University of London (PhD) Occupation(s) Historian, Writer Known for Authoring books about Indian history ...
Sarkar supported women's education in nineteenth-century India, when higher education among women was rare. For example, he was a supporter of Abala Bose 's decision to pursue the study of medicine at Madras Medical College instead of Calcutta Medical College , where admission of females was not permitted.
Dr. Kadambini Bose Ganguly (18 July 1861 – 3 October 1923 [1]) was the first female medical doctor from British India. She and Anandibai Joshi both got their degree in Western medicine in 1886. However, She was India's first practicing lady doctor as Anandibai died soon after.