All about Anandi Joshee, the amazing 19th century Indian woman who

All about Anandi Joshee, the amazing 19th century Indian woman who become a doctor in the US

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In this episode Suhag Shukla interviews author Nandini Patwardhan about her book Radical Spirits: India’s First Woman Doctor and her American Champions, a biography of Anandi-bai Joshee, who in 1883 as an 18-year old left Calcutta for the United States to study medicine, and who went on to become India’s first woman to earn a medical degree from an American college. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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