Anandibai joshi information in marathi
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History Today in Medicine – Dr. Anandibai Joshi
CME INDIA Presentation by ⚜ Dr. M. Gowri Sankar, MD, Senior Assistant Professor, Dept. of General Medicine, Government Medical College and ESI Hospital, Coimbatore.
Today’s History Feature:
Dr. Anandibai Joshi
(Mar 31, 1865 – Feb 26, 1887)
💠First Female Physician of India
Her contributions…
🔹Anandibai was born in a place called Kalyan in Maharashtra. She got married at the age of 9 years to Gopalrao Joshi, who was a postmaster.
🔹Gopalrao was basically a progressive thinker and a strong supporter of women’s education. Therefore, he supported Anandhi to complete her schooling and also to learn English.
🔹At the age of 14 years, she gave birth a boy baby. But unfortunately, the child short-lived for only ten days because of unavailable medical care at that time.
🔹This painful experience pushed Anandhi to dedicate herself to healthcare of the country. Hence, she determined to become a physician. Also, Gopalrao motivated Anandi to set an
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Anandibai Joshi | Philadelphia Women’s History Month All-Star
Anandibai Joshi
First Indian-American Woman Doctor
1865-1887
Born as a high-caste Hindu woman in Bombay, India, Anandibai Joshi realized that she wanted to study medicine after her first child died at only 10 days old.
Joshi was just 13 at the time, having been married at age 9 to an older man, but she believed that with better medical care her child would have survived, so dedicated her life to studying medicine.
At just 19 years old, Joshi left India to pursue her medical studies in 1883, traveling to America by herself to attend the Women’s Medical College of Pennsylvania.
Upon her graduation, in 1886, she became the first Indian woman to earn a medical degree in America. England’s Queen Victoria sent her a congratulatory message.
Before she could put her medical degree to use by opening a practice in India, Joshi became ill with tuberculosis and died. Her husband broke with the customs of the time by sending her ashes to be buried in America, in recognition of the time she spent studying medicine here.
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Anandi Gopal Joshi
One of the first female Indian doctors, alongside Kadambini Ganguly
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).[citation needed]
Early life
Anandi bai Joshi was born Yamuna, in Kalyan, on 31 March 1865, the fifth of nine children.[2][3] She was raised in a Marathi Chitpavan Brahmin family[4][5][page needed] As was the practice at that time and due to pressure from her mother, she was married at the age of nine to Gopal rao Joshi, a widower almost twenty years her senior.[6] After marriage, Yamuna's husband renamed her 'Anandi'.[7] Gopalrao Joshi worked as a postal clerk in Kalyan.
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