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Google Doodle honours Cornelia Sorabji, India's 1st female advocate

By: Team Ifairer | Posted: 15-11-2017
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During her career she represented hundreds of purdahnashins - women who are forbidden by custom from talking to men outside their family. These isolated women struggled to defend their interests in court, including their rights to inheritances, because all lawyers were men.

Only in 1923 colonial courts opened their doors to women advocates. The next year Cornelia began practicing in Kolkata. In addition to pleading for her clients, she had to fight bias and male domination in courts. Six years later she retired and moved to London. She died on July 6, 1954.

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