India's proud heritage

[Arleitter]

Re: India’s proud heritage

@Med911

She married quite young. Thanks to a very progressive husband though, she managed to get an education and convince local Hindu leaders to allow her to pursue a higher degree. Initially she was meant to go to England, but apparently her education there was contingent on her becoming Christian, which she would not do and neither would the Hindu community allow.But her cause was taken up by Americans who arranged for her to study at a Pennsylvania Quaker run medical school. This was around the mid 1800s, and she was about 18 at the time. She graduated as a doctor and returned to India where she died shortly thereafter from a chronic illness in about 1887… she was very famous at the time, and I believe she met the queen.

I doubt if she has met the queen but the queen had sent the university a letter acknowledging her success.This is as per the info available on her.