Cornelia Sorabji: India's pioneer woman lawyer / Suparna Gooptu.

New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2006.

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Sorabji, Cornelia.

Biography.

Lawyers -- India.

Part I. Making of a different Indian woman

Formative years: 1866-89

The Oxford days: 1889-93 --Part II. In colonial professions

The roving practitioner of law: 1893-1904

In colonial bureaucracy

At the Calcutta High Court --Part III. In search for an alternative public space

The Bengal League of Social Service for Women, Katherine Mayo and Cornelia

The political self.

Cornelia Sorabji (18661954) was a pioneer woman lawyer of India whose formative years coincided with the high noon of the British Empire. This detailed biography uses hitherto unused data to illustrate a remarkable individual. Sorabji was the first woman to study law at Oxford, the second Indian woman barrister, and among the early Indian women to practice at the Calcutta High Court.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

9780195678345

xxv, 241 p. : ill.