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Longlisted for the Center of Fiction First Novel Prize 2025

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Lady Doctors gift cards has turned his back onAt a time when medicine is a highly sought after career for Indian women, it is hard to imagine what it was like for the pioneers. The story of how firmly they were bound in fetters of family, caste and society, and how fiercely they fought to escape, needs to be told. In Lady Doctors, Kavitha Rao unearths the extraordinary stories of six women from the 1860s to the 1930s, who defied the idea that they were unfit for medicine by virtue of their