She The First Ep 2 | Dr Kadambini Ganguly: India's First Woman Doctor To Practise Medicine

British India was crippled by child marriage and Sati. Most women were not allowed to study. But this girl battled all odds to become India's first woman doctor to practise medicine.
Deliberately failed in her exams, insulted for treating 'untouchables', called a 'prostitute' in a magazine for serving the downtrodden. Despite outrage from society then, she cured lower-caste women and sex-workers. And treated patients till the end.
Dr Kadambini Ganguly - a woman of many firsts, fought to change status quo at every step. Calcutta University, Calcutta Medical College were the first institutions to open doors for women, because she wasn't ready to hear 'no' for an answer. Watch her inspiring story.
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00:00:10 - #UndividedBengal was crippled by malpractices such as #Sati and #ChildMarriage. Birth of the reformist #BrahmoSamajMovement.
00:00:46 - Beginning of the journey to becoming India's first woman #doctor to practise western medicine.
00:01:10 - Kadambini's father #BrajaKishoreBose was the founder of India's first #WomensRights organisation in 1863, and Kadambini's pillar of strength.
00:01:54 - 1878: Kadambini became the FIRST INDIAN WOMAN TO APPEAR FOR #CalcuttaUniversity 's ENTRANCE EXAM.
00:02:15 - How Bethune school became #BethuneCollege for girls, just because Kadambini wanted to go to college
00:02:43 - How #CalcuttaUniversity became the FIRST UNIVERSITY IN INDIA TO OPEN ITS DOORS FOR WOMEN
00:03:00 -1883 - How Kadambini became #SouthAsia 's FIRST FEMALE GRADUATES and Kadambini's marriage to #DwarknathGanguly
00:03:30 - Noted American historian #DavidKopf on Kadambini's achievement: "Kadambini was the most accomplished and liberated Brahmo women of her time."
00:04:26 - How Kadambini became the FIRST WOMAN TO ENROLL IN #CalcuttaMedicalCollege in 1884.
00:04:43 - #FlorenceNightingale on Kadambini: "After she made up her mind to become a doctor, she has had one child. But she was absent only 13 days for her lying in. And did not miss a single lecture."
00:05:29 - How Kadambini became the FIRST WOMAN TO PASS OUT OF CMC, FIRST SOUTH ASIAN WOMAN DOCTOR TO PRACTISE WESTERN MEDICINE. She joined #LadyDufferinVictoriaHospital in #Calcutta
00:06:09 - How Kadambini became one of the FIRST INDIAN WOMEN TO SAIL ABROAD FOR HIGHER STUDIES
00:06:33 - She received the triple diplomas of #ScottishCollege
00:06:51 - There's more to Kadambini - #FreedomFighter, social worker, reformist
00:07:02 - Kadambini voiced for rights of #teagarden workers in #Assam and #coalmine workers in #Bihar and #Odisha
00:07:20 - Kadambini was the FIRST WOMAN TO GIVE A LECTURE IN ENGLISH AT #INC session in Calcutta in 1890
00:07:42 - #AnnieBesant on Kadambini: "Kadambini is a symbol that India's freedom would uplift India's womanhood.
00:08:00 - Kadambini was referred to as a 'prostitute' in a #Bengali magazine, for serving the downtrodden, the sex-works, and the 'untouchables'.
00:08:32 - On 3 October 1923, Kadambini conducted a critical successful operation on a patient. That evening, she died of a heart attack.
00:09:00 - How Kadambini paved the way for other women achievers. She was, is, and will remain an inspiration for generations of women who aspire to break the glass ceiling.
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