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	\| birth_name = Haimabati Ghosh		\| birth_name = Haimabati Ghosh
	\| birth_date = 1866		\| birth_date = 1866
	\| birth_place = Kulna district, ~~East~~ Bengal		\| birth_place = Kulna district, [[Bengal Presidency]], [[British India]]
	\| death_date = ~~1932 or~~ 1933		\| death_date = 5 August 1933
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	\| occupation = Physician		\| occupation = Physician
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	\| spouse(s) =		\| spouse(s) = Kunjabihari Sen (m.1890)
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	'''Haimabati Sen''' (1866 – ~~1932 or~~ 1933), born '''Haimabati Ghosh''', was an Indian physician.		'''Haimabati Sen''' (1866 – 5 August 1933)<ref name="Sansad">{{cite book \| title=Sansad Bengali Charitabhidhan Vol.I\| publisher= Sahitya Sansad,Kolkata \| author= Subodh Kumar Sengupta & Anjali Bose \| year=2016 \| pages=883 \| isbn=978-81-7955-135-6}}</ref> born '''Haimabati Ghosh''', was an Indian physician.

	== Early life ==		== Early life ==
	Haimabati Ghosh was born in the [[Khulna District\|Khulna district]], [[~~East~~ Bengal]] (now Bangladesh). Her father was a [[zamindar]], a wealthy member of the [[Kulin Kayastha]] caste.<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal\|last=Sen\|first=Indrani\|date=2012\|title=Resisting Patriarchy: Complexities and Conflicts in the Memoir of Haimabati Sen\|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/23214502\|journal=Economic and Political Weekly\|volume=47\|issue=12\|pages=55–62; quotes from pages 55 and 57\|jstor=23214502\|issn=0012-9976}}</ref> As a very young widow, she trained as a teacher in Benares. After her second marriage, she attended the [[Nil Ratan Sircar Medical College and Hospital\|Campbell Medical College]] in Calcutta,<ref name=":1">{{Cite book\|last=Forbes\|first=Geraldine Hancock\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ClNEJwXLNQIC&q=Haimabati+Sen&pg=PA146\|title=Women in Colonial India: Essays on Politics, Medicine, and Historiography\|date=2005\|publisher=Orient Blackswan\|isbn=978-81-8028-017-7\|pages=146\|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book\|last=Mukherjee\|first=Sujata\|url=https://oxford.universitypressscholarship.com/view/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199468225.001.0001/acprof-9780199468225\|title=Gender, Medicine, and Society in Colonial India: Women's Health Care in Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Bengal\|date=2017-01-05\|publisher=Oxford University Press\|isbn=978-0-19-946822-5\|doi=10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199468225.001.0001}}</ref> and graduated at the top of her class in 1894.<ref name=":2">{{Cite book\|last=Chattopadhyay\|first=Anjana\|url=https://nbtindia.gov.in/writereaddata/freebooks/pdf/Women%20Scientists%20in%20India.pdf\|title=Women Scientists in India: Lives, Struggles & Achievements\|date=2018\|publisher=National Book Trust, India\|isbn=978-81-237-8144-0\|language=en}}</ref>		Haimabati Ghosh was born in the [[Khulna District\|Khulna district]], [[Bengal Presidency]] (now Bangladesh). Her father was a [[zamindar]], a wealthy member of the [[Kulin Kayastha]] caste.<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal\|last=Sen\|first=Indrani\|date=2012\|title=Resisting Patriarchy: Complexities and Conflicts in the Memoir of Haimabati Sen\|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/23214502\|journal=Economic and Political Weekly\|volume=47\|issue=12\|pages=55–62; quotes from pages 55 and 57\|jstor=23214502\|issn=0012-9976}}</ref> As a very young widow, she trained as a teacher in Benares. After her second marriage, she attended the [[Nil Ratan Sircar Medical College and Hospital\|Campbell Medical College]] in Calcutta,<ref name=":1">{{Cite book\|last=Forbes\|first=Geraldine Hancock\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ClNEJwXLNQIC&q=Haimabati+Sen&pg=PA146\|title=Women in Colonial India: Essays on Politics, Medicine, and Historiography\|date=2005\|publisher=Orient Blackswan\|isbn=978-81-8028-017-7\|pages=146\|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book\|last=Mukherjee\|first=Sujata\|url=https://oxford.universitypressscholarship.com/view/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199468225.001.0001/acprof-9780199468225\|title=Gender, Medicine, and Society in Colonial India: Women's Health Care in Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Bengal\|date=2017-01-05\|publisher=Oxford University Press\|isbn=978-0-19-946822-5\|doi=10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199468225.001.0001}}</ref> and graduated at the top of her class in 1894.<ref name=":2">{{Cite book\|last=Chattopadhyay\|first=Anjana\|url=https://nbtindia.gov.in/writereaddata/freebooks/pdf/Women%20Scientists%20in%20India.pdf\|title=Women Scientists in India: Lives, Struggles & Achievements\|date=2018\|publisher=National Book Trust, India\|isbn=978-81-237-8144-0\|language=en}}</ref>

	== Career ==		== Career ==
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	[[Category:People from ~~Khulna District~~]]		[[Category:People from Rupsa Upazila]]
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{{short description|Indian physician}}

{{Infobox person
| name = Haimabati Sen
| image = HaimabatiSen.png
| alt = An older South Asian woman, wearing a sari.
| caption =
| other_names = Haimabati Ghosh Mitra Sen
| birth_name = Haimabati Ghosh
| birth_date = 1866
| birth_place = Kulna district, East Bengal
| death_date = 1932 or 1933
| death_place =
| occupation = Physician
| years_active =
| known_for =
| notable_works =
| spouse(s) =
| relatives =
}}

'''Haimabati Sen''' (1866 – 1932 or 1933), born '''Haimabati Ghosh''', was an Indian physician.

== Early life ==
Haimabati Ghosh was born in the [[Khulna District|Khulna district]], [[East Bengal]] (now Bangladesh). Her father was a [[zamindar]], a wealthy member of the [[Kulin Kayastha]] caste.<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal|last=Sen|first=Indrani|date=2012|title=Resisting Patriarchy: Complexities and Conflicts in the Memoir of Haimabati Sen|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/23214502|journal=Economic and Political Weekly|volume=47|issue=12|pages=55–62; quotes from pages 55 and 57|jstor=23214502|issn=0012-9976}}</ref> As a very young widow, she trained as a teacher in Benares. After her second marriage, she attended the [[Nil Ratan Sircar Medical College and Hospital|Campbell Medical College]] in Calcutta,<ref name=":1">{{Cite book|last=Forbes|first=Geraldine Hancock|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ClNEJwXLNQIC&q=Haimabati+Sen&pg=PA146|title=Women in Colonial India: Essays on Politics, Medicine, and Historiography|date=2005|publisher=Orient Blackswan|isbn=978-81-8028-017-7|pages=146|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last=Mukherjee|first=Sujata|url=https://oxford.universitypressscholarship.com/view/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199468225.001.0001/acprof-9780199468225|title=Gender, Medicine, and Society in Colonial India: Women's Health Care in Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Bengal|date=2017-01-05|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-946822-5|doi=10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199468225.001.0001}}</ref> and graduated at the top of her class in 1894.<ref name=":2">{{Cite book|last=Chattopadhyay|first=Anjana|url=https://nbtindia.gov.in/writereaddata/freebooks/pdf/Women%20Scientists%20in%20India.pdf|title=Women Scientists in India: Lives, Struggles & Achievements|date=2018|publisher=National Book Trust, India|isbn=978-81-237-8144-0|language=en}}</ref>

== Career ==
Sen was a physician at the Lady Dufferin Women's Hospital in [[Hooghly district|Hooghly]] from 1894 to 1910,<ref name=":1" /><ref>{{Cite web|date=2019-10-17|title=Book on India's premier women doctors|url=https://www.thehansindia.com/featured/womenia/book-on-indias-premier-women-doctors-573289|access-date=2020-10-19|website=The Hans India|language=en}}</ref> and had a private practice in [[Hugli-Chuchura|Chinsurah]], until her death in the early 1930s.<ref name=":2" /> She wrote a "valuable"<ref name=":0" /> memoir in the 1920s, detailing her own struggles and her concerns for all young women: "Do I have to suffer all this simply because I am a woman? Would anyone have inflicted so much suffering on a man? Why are they so worried as to whose wife I am or whose daughter?"<ref name=":0" /> Her memoir was translated from [[Bengali language|Bengali]] and published in English many years later, in 2000.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Sen|first=Haimabati|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=a-XaAAAAMAAJ|title=The Memoirs of Dr. Haimabati Sen: From Child Widow to Lady Doctor|date=2000|publisher=Roli Books|isbn=978-81-7436-090-8|language=en}}</ref>

== Personal life ==
Haimabati Ghosh married twice. She was first married at age 9, to a widower with two daughters; a year later, she was a child widow. Without the support of her husband, parents, brothers, or in-laws, she sought assistance at a widows' house in Benares, and joined the [[Brahmo Samaj]] community.{{cn|date=December 2020}} In 1890, she married again, to Kunjabehari Sen. They had five children together. Haimabati Sen died in 1932 (or 1933),<ref>{{Cite web|title=Haimabati Ghosh Mitra Sen|url=https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803100454376|access-date=2020-10-19|website=Oxford Reference|language=en}}</ref> in her sixties.<ref name=":2" />

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