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Google honours India’s first woman advocate with doodle
November 16 , 2017
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- Search engine giant Google paid tribute to Cornelia Sorabji, the first Indian woman student in Britain and India’s first woman lawyer, on her 151st birth anniversary with a special doodle.
- Sorabji, born in Maharashtra’s Nashik in 1866, is also recognised as the first woman graduate of Bombay University as early as 1892 and first Indian national to attend Oxford University.
- Sorabji, who was the first woman advocate to join the Allahabad High Court bar, fought tirelessly for the rights of ‘purdahnashins’ - veiled women forbidden by social custom from communicating with men outside their families.
- The doodle was designed by illustrator Jasjyot Singh Hans.
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