Doctor Rakhmabai
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Dr. Rakhmabai | |
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| Born | 1864 |
| Died | 1955 (aged 90–91) |
| Other names | Rakhmabai Raut |
| Known for | India's First Practicing Lady Doctor |
Doctor Rakhmabai deals with the tumultuous era of 1864-1955. 90 epic years that changed Indian tradition and society and one Iconic Lady who was responsible for the silent revolt.
India's First Practicing Lady Doctor
Dr. Rakhmabai, India's first practicing lady doctor. She diligently followed her step-father Dr Sakharam Arjun's lessons to educate herself, much against the norms of the time. It was a move that shook up a lot of people in a conservative, orthodox society. What followed was a bigger upheaval, what became "the most shocking news of the time".
Young Rakhmabai refused to live with her husband, raising a storm of dust that ended up as a battle in the High Court of Bombay[then] under a British judge. In what threatened to change existing marriage laws and raise a dust on child marriage and abuse, Rakhmabai stood steadfast in her intentions and despite losing the case refused to bend down to her imbecile husband. She went to England to get a degree in medicine and returned to her country that ironically ostracized her. But she fought to pioneer medical theories and also to clear the stigma attached to her.
Child Bride
Rakhmabai was a child bride of the 19th century in British India. Her mother had herself suffered a similar fate, because of child marriage. She was married off at the age of fourteen and delivered Rakhmabai when she was barely fifteen and before she had attained her seventeenth year she had become a child widow. Her fate was sealed. Child marriage, early child birth, and teenage widowhood with a fortunate widow remarriage, and that too with a female child.
Novel by Mohini Varde
"DR RAKHMABAI-THE ODYSSEY" Bestselling Novel by Mohini Varde.
The story about India's Pioneering, Iconic Lady whose defiant stand on Social And Scientific Values were an inspiration for generations to come and hold good even today in a frightening world that guns down a girl like MALALA who wished to educate herself.
References
- "Dr Rukhmabai steals 'first' lady doc's thunder". midday.
- "Rukhmabai-India's First Lady Doctor?". sulekha.com.
- "Rakhmabai". womenofbrighton.