Anandi Gopal Joshi

Mar 31, 1865 - Feb 26, 1887

Anandibai Gopalrao Joshi was one of the first Indian female doctors of western medicine alongside Kadambini Ganguly. She was the first woman from the erstwhile Bombay presidency of India to study and graduate with a two-year degree in western medicine in the United States. She was also referred to as Anandibai Joshi and Anandi Gopal Joshi.
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“Be grateful for challenges because... Had there been no difficulties and no thorns in the way, then [each woman and] man would have been in his primitive state and no progress made in civilisation and mental culture.”

Anandi Gopal Joshi
Mar 31, 1865 - Feb 26, 1887

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