Daktarin Jamini Sen The Life Of One Of British Indias First Women Doctors

“Daktarin Jamini Sen: The Life of One of British India’s First Women Doctors” is a biography of Jamini Sen, a pioneering Bengali physician who became one of the earliest Indian women doctors and the first woman Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow. Written by her great‑niece Deepta Roy Chakraverti, it traces Sen’s journey from a progressive Brahmo family in Barisal to Bethune College and Calcutta Medical College, her decade as royal physician in Nepal, and her later work transforming women’s healthcare across colonial India.