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Book by Kavitha Rao
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- A book titled “Lady Doctors: The Untold Stories of India’s First Women in Medicine” has authored by Kavitha Rao.
- This book recovers the stories of India’s first women doctors, often ignored by history.
- In this excerpt from Kavitha Rao’s ‘Lady Doctors: The Untold Stories of India’s First Women in Medicine, the story of Rukhmabai Raut’.
- Rukhmabai was an Indian physician and feminist.
- She is best known for being one of the first practising women doctors in colonial India.
- She also involved in a landmark legal case involving her marriage as a child bride between 1884 and 1888.
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