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One of the first female Indian doctors, alongside Kadambini Ganguly

Anandibai Gopalrao Joshi (31 March 1865 – 26 February 1887) was the first Indian female doctor of western medicine.

She was the first woman from the erstwhile Bombay presidency of British India to study and graduate with a two-year degree in western medicine in the United States.^[1] She was also referred to as Anandibai Joshi and Anandi Gopal Joshi (where Gopal came from Gopalrao, her husband's first name).^{[citation needed]}

Early life

Anandi bai Joshi was born Yamuna, in Kalyan, on 31 March 1865, the fifth of nine children.^[2][3] She was raised in a Marathi Chitpavan Brahmin family^{[4][5][page needed]} As was the practice at that time and due to pressure from her mother, she was married at the age of nine to Gopal rao Joshi, a widower almost twenty years her senior.^[6] After marriage, Yamuna's