On a humid morning in 1883, a young Bengali woman stood outside the towering gates of Calcutta Medical College, a place where no woman had ever set foot as a student. Inside, professors argued heatedly, the principal hesitated, and the all-male student body whispered in disbelief. A woman wanted to study medicine. A woman wanted to enter the sacred halls of surgery.
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Most would have turned back.
Kadambini Ganguly didn’t
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