Title: Opening doors
Description: Cornelia Sorabji was the first Indian female lawyer. She was "original and often outspoken in her views - for example in her criticism of Gandhi and her surprising friendship with Katherine Mayo". Cornelia was "a passionate advocate of women's rights whose own career was nearly compromised through her relationsip with a married man". -- Book jacket.
Subjects: Women lawyers, Women social reformers, Biography, India, biography, Social reformers, India, history, british occupation, 1765-1947, Lawyers, History
Places: India
People: Cornelia Sorabji