Portal:West Bengal/Selected biography/3
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Kadambini Ganguly (1861-1923) was the one of the first female graduates of the British Empire and the first female physician of South Asia to be trained in the European system of medicine. Daughter of Brahmo reformer Braja Kishore Basu, Kadambini started her education at Banga Mahila Vidyalaya and was the first woman to pass the Entrance examination of the University of Calcutta from Bethune School in 1878. It was in part in recognition of her efforts that Bethune College first introduced FA (First Arts) and then graduation courses. Along with her husband, she was actively involved in female emancipation and social movements to improve work conditions of female coal miners in eastern India.
