Google Honours India’s First Woman Advocate Cornelia Sorabji
[dropcap]S[/dropcap]earch engine giant Google today paid tribute to Cornelia Sorabji, the first Indian woman student in Britain and India's first woman lawyer, on her 151st birth anniversary with a special doodle.
Sorabji, born in Maharashtras Nashik in 1866, is also recognised as the first woman graduate of Bombay University.
Designed by illustrator Jasjyot Singh Hans, the Google homepage shows a white-wigged Sorabji, dressed in a lawyers black robe, in front of the Allahabad High Court.
Sorabji, who was the first woman advocate to join the Allahabad High Court bar, fought tirelessly for the rights of purdahnashins -- veiled women forbidden by social custom from communicating with men outside their families.
"On what would have been her 151st birthday, we celebrate Cornelia...