![]() ![]() Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. This section needs additional citations for verification. There she learned to read and speak Sanskrit and English. After Gopalrao tried to enroll her in missionary schools and not working out, they moved to Calcutta. This proved to be a turning point in Anandi's life and inspired her to become a physician. Īt the age of fourteen, Anandibai gave birth to a boy, but the child lived only for a total of ten days due to lack of medical care. She was also a relative of Pandita Ramabai. He was a progressive thinker, and, unusually for that time, supported education for women. Later, he was transferred to Alibag, and then, finally, to Kolhapoor ( Kolhapur). ![]() Gopalrao Joshi worked as a postal clerk in Kalyan. After marriage, Yamuna's husband renamed her 'Anandi'. Originally named Yamuna, Joshi was born, raised in a Marathi Chitpavan Brahmin family As was the practice at that time and due to pressure from her mother, she was married at the age of nine to Gopalrao Joshi, a widower almost twenty years her senior. She was also referred to as Anandibai Joshi and Anandi Gopal Joshi (where Gopal came from Gopalrao, her husband's first name). She was the first woman from the erstwhile Bombay presidency of India to study and graduate with a two-year degree in western medicine in the United States. Anandibai Gopalrao Joshi (31 March 1865 – 26 February 1887) was the first Indian female doctor of western medicine. ![]() ![]() Poughkeepsie, New York, United States ( ashes)ĭr. ![]()
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