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Rukhmabai
Rukhmabai was an Indian physician and feminist. She is best known for being one of the first practicing women doctors in colonial India as well as being involved in a landmark legal case involving her marriage as a child bride between 1884 and 1888. The case raised significant public debate across several topics, which most prominently included law vs tradition, social reform vs conservatism and f…
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science · One of the first practicing women doctors in colonial India · physician · also Rukhmabai, Doctor Rakhmabai, Rukhmabai Raut, Rakhmabai, Rukhmabai Bhimrao Raut
Born 22 November 1864 · Died 25 September 1955 · Q24939367
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2024· 4 entries
Mint: Rukhmabai—the child bride who dared to rebel
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moneycontrol.com: Pioneers: Rukhmabai, one of India's first women doctors, encouraged women to seek medical help, socialise
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The book is a biography based on decades of research
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Published “‘Indian Child Marriages: An Appeal to the British Government’” in Women in Medicine in the Long Nineteenth Century.
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2019· 1 entry
Mumbai Mirror: Rukhmabai’s battle
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2017· 7 entries
NDTV: India's First Practicing Woman Doctor Rukhmabai Fought For Right To Consent
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India TV: Google Doodle celebrates physician Rukhmabai Raut’s 153rd birth anniversary. Let’s know more about her
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TheHealthSite: Google Doodle: Facts about Rukhmabai Raut, the first practicing Indian woman doctor
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The Financial Express: Who is Rukhmabai in today’s Google Doodle? The revolutionary doctor who paved the path for Age of Consent Act
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The Hindu: Rukhmabai, one of the first Indian women physicians, gets Google Doodle
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NDTV: Google Doodle: Celebrating Rukhmabai Raut's Birth Anniversary
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The Financial Express: Google doodle celebrates Rukhmabai’s birthday, know all about her
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2016· 1 entry
The story of Rukhmabai was adapted into a Marathi film titled Doctor Rakhmabai starring Tannishtha Chatterjee directed by Anant Mahadevan and produced by Dr Swapna Patker
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2008· 1 entry
The specifics of the legal case between Rukhmabai and her husband were published as a book titled Enslaved Daughters: Colonialism, Law and Women's Rights (ISBN 9780195695731) by author Sudhir Chandra
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1955· 1 entry
Died 1955-09-25.
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1929· 1 entry
After her retirement, she published a pamphlet titled "Purdah - the need for its abolition" arguing that young widows were being denied the chance to actively contribute to Indian society
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1918· 1 entry
Turned down the offer of a role in the Woman's Medical Service, opting instead to work at the Zenana (Woman's) State Hospital in Rajkot until her retirement in 1929
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1895· 1 entry
Returned to India and worked as the Chief Medical Officer at the Women's Hospital in Surat
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1894· 1 entry
Received her Doctor of Medicine from the London School of Medicine for Women (LSMW) having also studied at the Royal Free Hospital
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1891· 1 entry
Which changed the age of consent from 10 to 12 years across British India
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1889· 2 entries
And Rukhmabai went on to become a widely revered feminist and medical practitioner
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Rukhmabai set sail to study medicine in England
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1885· 1 entry
The case of Bhikaji seeking "restitution of conjugal rights" titled "Bhikaji vs
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1864· 1 entry
Born 1864-11-22.
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