Under the rule of East India company, where education was a faraway thing for women, Dr Kadambini Ganguly became the first women graduates from India and the entire British Empire, and the first female physicians trained in western medicine in the whole of South Asia. Dr Anandibai joshi was the first Indian woman to obtain a medical degree through training in Western medicine, Kadambini Ganguly earned a medical degree the same year, after Anandibai. Early life Dr Kadambini Ganguly born in 1861, was the daughter of Braja Kishore Basu (Brahmo reformer).
Although she was born at Bhagalpur in Bihar, her family was originally from Chandsi, in Barisal (now in Bangladesh). Her father was headmaster of Bhagalpur School by profession. In a move for women's freedom at Bhagalpur, her father established the women's organization Bhagalpur Mahila Samiti in 1863 which was the first women’s…
