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India Calling
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Opening Doors
Cornelia Sorabji was the first Indian female lawyer. She was "original and often outspoken in her views - for example in her criticism of Gandhi and her surprising friendship with Katherine Mayo". Cornelia was "a passionate advocate of women's rights whose own career was nearly compromised through her relationsip with a married man". -- Book jacket.
Cornelia Sorabji
Cornelia Sorabji (1866-1954) was the first woman lawyer of India whose formative years coincided with the high noon of the British Empire. She occupies a significant place in Indian history, as she played a pioneering role in trying to open up the legal profession to women much before they were formally allowed to plead before the courts of law. This detailed biography uses rich and hitherto unused data to illustrate a remarkable individual, who has remained neglected in the historiography of modern India. Sorabji's opposition to Indian nationalism in the Gandhian era led to a disapproval of her role and personality. Yet this Parsee and the daughter of a convert to Christianity was the first...
Between The Twilights Being Studies Of Indian Women By One Of Themselves
The author, whose works include "Love and Life behind the Purdah" and "Sun Babies," is well-known for fusing Eastern and Western viewpoints in a unique way. Her legal training at Lincoln's Inn and Oxford education, as a Christian Parsee, demonstrate her diverse upbringing. She has dedicated her life to the admirable goal of supporting and lessening the difficulties that her sisters who are sequestered behind the purdahs endure. This collection of thoughtful studies of Indian women is a monument to her dedication. Her profound knowledge of Eastern and Western cultures allows her to illuminate the complexities of Indian women's lives, hardships, and victories. By using the power of her words, she creates a bridge across worlds by providing a distinct viewpoint while also promoting empathy and understanding amongst nations.
India Calling
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An Indian Portia
The first woman to practice law in India and Britain, Cornelia Sorabji founded the League for Infant Welfare, Maternity and District Nursing and helped hundreds of Indian women and children during her career as one of the country's most prominent social reformers. Providing an unprecedented portrait of her influential life and work, this collection includes published writing as well as letters and diary entries gathered from private sources and the Cornelia Sorabji archives in the British Library. These documents include writings on Gandhi, the independence movement, social reform, education, welfare, the caste system and untouchability, and the position of women; they also include correspon...
Love and Life Behind the Purdah
Love and Life Behind the Purdah (1901) is a collection of short stories by Indian writer, lawyer, and social reformer Cornelia Sorabji. Raised by Christian missionaries, Sorabji trained as a lawyer at Oxford University before returning to India to work with women and orphans across the country. Her fictional work illustrates a creative imagination and well-rounded sense of the diverse political and religious identities that make up the population of India. In her first published book, Sorabji spins tales of women and children from varied sociopolitical backgrounds. Writing on the Hindu purdahnashin--women cut off from the outside world--Sorabji drew on her experience as a litigator represent...
India Calling
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An Indian Portia
Cornelia Sorabji was a social reformer, an author and the first woman to practise law in India and Britain. This text presents Cornelia's letters in chronological order from 1866 to 1954.
Love and Life Behind the Purdah
Love and Life Behind the Purdah (1901) is a collection of short stories by Indian writer, lawyer, and social reformer Cornelia Sorabji. Raised by Christian missionaries, Sorabji trained as a lawyer at Oxford University before returning to India to work with women and orphans across the country. Her fictional work illustrates a creative imagination and well-rounded sense of the diverse political and religious identities that make up the population of India. In her first published book, Sorabji spins tales of women and children from varied sociopolitical backgrounds. Writing on the Hindu purdahnashin--women cut off from the outside world--Sorabji drew on her experience as a litigator represent...
