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Rukhmabai

1864 - 1955

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Rukhmabai (22 November 1864 – 25 September 1955) was an Indian physician and feminist. She is best known for being one of the first practicing women doctors in colonial India (the first being Dr. Kadambini Ganguly who started practicing in 1886) as well as being involved in a landmark legal case involving her marriage as a child bride between 1884 and 1888. The case raised significant public debate across several topics, which most prominently included law vs tradition, social reform vs conservatism and feminism in both British-ruled India and England. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Rukhmabai is the 2,925th most popular religious figure, the 798th most popular biography from India and the 54th most popular Indian Religious Figure.

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Rukhmabai ranks 2,925 out of 3,187. Before her are Catherine Booth, Charles Scicluna, Pedro López Quintana, Serafim Fernandes de Araújo, Aristobulus of Britannia, and Æthelberht II of East Anglia. After her are Paolo Pezzi, Joseph Serge Miot, Paulinus of York, Chibly Langlois, John Ribat, and Antoine Kambanda.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1864, Rukhmabai ranks 166. Before her are Jakob Emanuel Lange, George Hillyard, Tully Marshall, Alice Davenport, Anna Golubkina, and Cosmo Gordon Lang. After her are Emine Semiye Önasya, Antonín Sova, W. H. R. Rivers, Frank Chapman, Jakob Jakobsen, and Oscar Baumann. Among people deceased in 1955, Rukhmabai ranks 158. Before her are Georges Johin, Major Ritchie, Arthur Shaw, George van Rossem, Nick Winter, and John Hodiak. After her are John Fenning, David Carstens, James Jones, S. Z. Sakall, Harold Walden, and Pentti Haanpää.

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In India

Among people born in India, Rukhmabai ranks 798 out of 1,861. Before her are Arjun Kapoor (1985), Michael Bates (1920), Asrani (1940), Amol Palekar (1944), Pinarayi Vijayan (1945), and Parkash Singh Badal (1927). After her are Tarsem Singh (1961), Johnny Lever (1957), Sharat Saxena (1950), Shobhna Samarth (1916), Kapil Dev (1959), and R. K. Laxman (1921).

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In India

Among religious figures born in India, Rukhmabai ranks 54. Before her are Oswald Gracias (1944), Nirmala Joshi (1934), Joseph Coutts (1945), Mirza Tahir Ahmad (1928), Chandramukhi Basu (1860), and Wahiduddin Khan (1925). After her are Simon Pimenta (1920), Baselios Cleemis (1959), Ravi Zacharias (1946), Varkey Vithayathil (1927), Filipe Neri Ferrão (1953), and Joseph Parecattil (1912).

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