social reformer
Rukhmabai Raut
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Subject of 1 profile piece — including Rukhmabai - An Unrelenting Force Against Patriarchal Norms .
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- Rukhmabai - An Unrelenting Force Against Patriarchal Norms
- "Rukhmabai went on to become the first practising female doctor in British India." — establishes her historic medical achievement
- "Married off at the age of eleven, Rukhmabai continued to stay with her parents and prioritized her education. Her bold refusal to stay with her husband even after almost a decade of marriage resulted in the landmark case" — captures the defiant act that made her legally historic