Tributes pour in for India s first woman doctor Kadambini Ganguly on 160th birth anniversary
Politicians and common people from all walks of life hailed Kadambini Ganguly as a champion of women s rights in India.
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KOLKATA: Tributes poured in for Kadambini Ganguly, one of India s first two women doctors on Sunday, her 160th birth anniversary.
Along with Anandi Joshi, Ganguly became the first woman in colonial India to study medicine and earn a degree in 1886.
While Joshi studied at Womans Medical College of Pennsylvania in the US, Ganguly pursued western medicine at Calcutta Medical College (CMC).
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