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First Indian Woman To Study Medicine in US Has Story That Must Be Told
Anandi Gopal’s path was in part charted by Gopalrao, to whom she was married at the age of nine.
Who was Anandi Gopal Joshi? Many know her as the first Indian woman to have studied medicine in the United States, graduating from the Woman’s Medical College of Pennsylvania in 1886. Little, however, is known about her beyond these few lines.