Kadambini Gangly the first female physician.

kadambini Bose was born on 18th July 1861 at Bhagalpur, British India.Her father's name was Braja  Kishore Basu a Bramho reformer.The family was from Barisal which is now in Bangladesh.Her father was the Head Master of Bhagalpur school. He and Abhay  Charan Mallik started the movement for women's emancipation at Bhagalpur . Kadambini Gangly and Chandramukhi Bose were the two female graduates from India and the entire British empire.She was also the first south Asian 

female physician trained in western medicine . Ganguly studied medicine at the Calcutta Medical college. In 1886 she was given a graduate of Bengal medical college degree.She thus became one of the two Anand Gopal joshi being the other Indian women doctors who qualiified to practice western medicine. Kadambini went to the United kingdom in 1892  after qualifying as LRCP,LRCS and GFPS from Edinburgh, Glasgow and Durban respectively.After working for a short period in Lady Differing hospital she started her own practice. In 1883  she married the Bramho reformer and leader of women's emancipation Dwarkanath Ganguly . They were  actively involved in female emancipation and social movements to improve work  conditions of female coal miners in western India.She was of the six delegates to the fifth sessions of the Indian National Congress in 1891 and also organized the women's conference in  Calcutta in 1906.she formed an association to.  collect money to assist the workers.She died in 1923.