Kadambini Ganguly is India's first female graduate and female physician.

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Kadambini Ganguly is India's first female graduate and female physician.

In the nineteenth, twentieth and even the twenty-first century, she was a majestic woman. Moved forward? How did you overcome all adversity?

In the nineteenth century, it was difficult for girls to get out of the four walls. Kadambini Ganguly broke the tradition of becoming a girl in that society. Became the first female doctor of Bengal. His path to success was not smooth, it was full of thorns. The society of that time showed bloodshot eyes. Kadambini has walked a long way ignoring that bloody eye.

Despite being a doctor, Kadambini has been neglected. The question in the minds of the people of the society was, how can a girl be a doctor? Kadambini Ganguly has won the hearts of the people who have repeatedly raised their fingers to break the negative notion.

There is a story - everyone's darling daughter of the big house is sick. Immediately the car rushed to fetch the doctor. When Kadambini got out of the car, everyone in the house said, ‘Oma, where is the doctor? This is Maya! '

There are thousands of such obstacles and success stories in Kadambini's life.

Kadambini Ganguly was born on 16 July 181 in Bhagalpur, Bihar. His father is school teacher Brajkishore Basu.

She was one of the first two female graduates in British India. Not only that, Kadambini Ganguly was the first female doctor in South Asia to be educated in European medicine. She earned a degree in Western medicine in the late nineteenth century and, along with Anandibai Joshi, became one of the earliest female physicians in India.

Biography of Kadambini Ganguly

Although Kadambini, daughter of Brahmo reformer Brajkishore Basu, was born in Bhagalpur, Bihar, her original home was in Chandsi, Barisal, present-day Bangladesh. His father was the headmaster of Bhagalpur school. Brajkishore Basu along with Abhaycharan Mallick campaigned for women's rights in Bhagalpur. They established the women's organization Bhagalpur Mahila Samiti in 183 AD. This was the first such incident in India.

His father Brajkishore brought him to Calcutta to study. Kadambini started her education at Banga Mahila Vidyalaya. Later, while studying at Bethune School, she became the first woman in 18 to pass the entrance examination of Calcutta University in the second class. Influenced by him, Bethune College started first FA (First Arts) and then other undergraduate classes. Kadambini and Chandramukhi Bose were the first graduates of Bethune College in 183 AD. They passed BA. They were the first female graduates in India and the entire British Empire.

After graduating, Kadambini Devi decided that she would study medicine. When he started studying in medical college in 183, he married his teacher Dwarkanath Ganguly. Dwarkanath was famous as a social reformer and philanthropist journalist. Kadambini, a 39-year-old widow, was 21 when she married. Kadambini passed all the written subjects in the final examination but failed in an important subject in practice. In 18 AD he was conferred the degree of GBMC (Graduate of Bengal Medical College). She was the first Indian woman to be allowed to practice medicine in Western medicine. Besides, while studying in medical college, he got a government scholarship, which was 20 rupees a month.

He studied in medical college for five years and went to Britain. Before moving to Britain, she worked for a while at Lady Dufferin Women's Hospital for a monthly salary of 300 rupees.

Kadambini was one of the first six women to be elected to the fifth session of the Congress in Bombay in 189. The following year he addressed the sixth session of the Calcutta Congress. Kadambini was the first female speaker of the Congress. Kadambini was the first president of the Transvaal Indian Association founded by Gandhiji's colleague Henry Pollock and was a member of the Women's Conference held in Calcutta in 1906.

In 1914 he presided over the General Brahmo Samaj session in Calcutta. This session was organized in honor of Mahatma Gandhi. Kadambini was aware of the exploitation of tea garden workers. She supports her husband's point of view. Her husband condemned the use of tea garden workers in Assam. Kadambini Devi, along with poet Kamini Roy, was appointed by the government in 1922 to investigate the situation of women workers in Bihar and Orissa.

Personal life

He also had to give a lot of time to the family for the children. He was also skilled in embroidery. The famous American historian David Coff writes, "Ganguly's wife Kadambini was the most majestic and independent Brahmin woman of her time. She was ahead of other Brahmin and Christian women in Bengali society at that time. Talking about rights is a source of inspiration for the community. "

Success in overcoming social barriers

He was attacked by Hindu conservative society. Kadambini, who is recorded as the first woman of Bengal in many aspects of her career, has to face many obstacles. One of the editors, Mahesh Chandra Pal, called him disrespectful. At that time, Mahesh Chandra Pal, the editor of a periodical called Bangabasi, printed a cartoon. Kadambini has been compared to ‘Swarini’. Because Kadambini is not domestic at all. He has no mind or devotion towards home and children. Despite being the mother of so many children, she is not practicing motherhood. On this again social service, doing Swadeshi, doing sabhasamiti outside. So a cartoon was drawn in the Bengali newspaper, Dr. Kadambini is dragging her husband Dwarkanath's nose with a rope. But neither Kadambini nor her husband is the bride to leave. The case is. Mahesh Chandra Pal, editor of Bangabasi, was fined Rs 100 and jailed for six months. At the time, it was not at all easy to sue a woman for defamation, especially against a reputable paper editor.

Kadambini Ganguly went to see a patient one day as a doctor. After getting out of the car, the people of the house were saying, 'Where is the doctor? This is a girl! He also had to be the victim of such comments from the society. In a word, she overcame many obstacles and became the first woman doctor in Bengal.

But above all there was ‘Doctor Kadambini’. The mother of King Jung Bahadur of Nepal once became very ill. Kadambini was summoned as a last resort. Rajmata was cured by his medicine. Kadambini was allowed to stay in a separate palace. Gold-and-silver dishes were served. On her return, the queen was given a large sum of money, gold ornaments, pearl necklaces, silverware, copper-brass-ivory, and a white round, live pony. He used to run from one end of Kolkata to the other to see the patients. He used to weave lace continuously while going on the road! The skill with which he operated the knife in surgery, he could create all the wonderful lace designs. Kadambini subdued time and criticism, literally realizing the proverb ‘He who cooks also ties his hair’!

Kadambini also went to the patient's house on the last day of her life. Has undergone complex surgery. Satisfied, Kadambini came home and told her daughter-in-law, "It was a successful and beautiful day. She felt so good that she wanted to fly in the air."

Supportive, independent Kadambini always said that she did not want to be the go-to of anyone, not even her own son. So he wanted to die while working. So, shortly after talking to his daughter-in-law, the female doctor died of a severe cerebral stroke while taking a bath.

The majestic woman Kadambini Ganguly died on this day, October 3, 1923. Countless women have had the opportunity to provide medical care through her hands. By educating themselves in self-education, women have learned to live with their heads held high in the society. Women have learned to prove that they are no less than men. On the contrary, it is possible to take the society and the country forward with equal efforts of men and women.

We pay homage to the majestic woman Kadambini Ganguly on the day of her death.

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