Anandibai Gopalrao Joshi Quotes


Be grateful for challenges because... Had there been no difficulties and no thorns in the way, then [each woman and] man would have been in his primitive state and no progress made in civilisation and mental culture.


Citations

Dall, Caroline Healey. The Life of Dr. Anandabai Joshee: A Kinswoman of the Pundita Ramabai. Roberts Brothers, 1888.

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  • Born: March 31, 1865
  • Died: February 26, 1887
  • Nationality: Indian
  • Profession: Physician

Anandibai Gopalrao Joshi (31 March 1865 – 26 February 1887) was the first Indian female doctor of western medicine. She was the first woman from the erstwhile Bombay presidency of British India to study and graduate with a two-year degree in western medicine in the United States.[1] She was also referred to as Anandibai Joshi and Anandi Gopal Joshi (where Gopal came from Gopalrao, her husband's first name).