Cornelia sorabji biography of mahatma

Cornelia Sorabji was the first Indian woman to study at the University of Oxford. She was born born in a Christian Parsi family in Nasik, India. Her father was a Christian reverend, who was a strong advocate of women’s rights to receive degrees from the University of Bombay (Mumbai). Her mother had been adopted and raised by a British family and throughout her life helped establish several girls' schools. 

Oxford and Cornelia Sorabji

Sorabji first studied at Deccan College, and gained a first in her finals, which would normally have entitled her to a Government of India scholarship to pursue further studies. Yet, because she was a woman, she was denied the funding. In 1888, in order to be able to gain higher education, she successfully applied to the National Indian Association for financial support, and in 1889, she came to England to study Medicine at Somerville College, Oxford. She was only able to do so because of recent reforms coming from within the University, which allow

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Cornelia Sorabji was born on November 15, 1866, in Nasik, in the Bombay presidency in India.

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Cornelia Sorabji, India's first woman lawyer, was an equally arresting figure of colonial India, a well-spoken, complicated personality who sheathed herself in.