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{{Infobox person<br />
|name = Pulney Andy<br />
| image = Senjee_Pulney_Andy.png<br />
|caption = <br />
|birth_date = 1831<br />
|birth_place = [[Trichinopoly]], [[Madras Presidency]], British India<br />
|death_date = {{Death year and age|1909|1831|9}}<br />
|occupation = Doctor<br />
|known_for = First Indian to receive a British [[medical degree]]<br />
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'''Senjee Pulney Andy''' (1831 – September 1909) also spelled as '''S. Parani Andi''' or '''S. Parani Andy''', was an Indian physician who was the first Indian to have obtained an advanced post-graduate British medical degree (MD) in 1860. He took an interest in medical botany and also attempted to create a Christian sect based on Indian cultural ideals.<br />
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Pulney Andy was born in [[Tiruchirappalli|Tiruchirapalli]] in a family whose ancestors had served the Raja of Senjee or [[Gingee]] and had been entitled to use the prefix Senjee. He was educated at [[Madras Christian College]] and then went to the Madras Medical College where he studied under [[Hugh Francis Cleghorn]] who had a great influence on him. Andy went to the [[University of St. Andrews]] in Scotland where he received an MD in 1860 and continued to correspond with Cleghorn. He lived for a while in Smithfield Market, Islington, and his family stopped corresponding when they learned of the prostitution and disrepute associated with the area. His graduation fee was lent by Cleghorn.<ref>{{cite book |author=Noltie, H.J. |title=Indian Forester, Scottish Laird. The botanical lives of Hugh Cleghorn of Stravithie |publisher=Royal Botanic Garden |year=2016 |place=Edinburgh |pages=60–61}}</ref> He became a fellow of the [[Royal College of Surgeons]] in 1862 and on his return to India, he was posted as superintendent of vaccination in Malabar. He wrote to the Linnean Society on unusual branching in palms<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Pulney |first1=Andy |year=1869 |title=On Branched Palms in Southern India |journal=Transactions of the Linnean Society of London |volume=26 |issue=3 |pages=661–662 |publisher=[[John Wiley & Sons|Wiley]] |doi=10.1111/j.1096-3642.1869.tb00544.x|url=https://zenodo.org/record/1433131 }}</ref> and participated in the discussions of other scholarly societies. He also examined the use of neem as a treatment for smallpox.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Pulney |first1=Andy |year=1867 |title=On the use of Margosa leaves in Small-pox |journal=The Madras Quarterly Journal of Medical Science |pages=105–107 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WfEEAAAAQAAJ&dq=ANDY%20PULNEY&pg=PA105 |accessdate=20 February 2011 }}</ref><ref name = encyc>{{cite book |title=Encyclopedia of India: Volume 1 |last=Wolpert |first=Stanley |authorlink= |year=2005 |publisher=[[Gale (publisher)|Gale]] |location= |isbn=978-0-684-31349-8 |page=44 |url=}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|url= https://www.currentscience.ac.in/Volumes/104/12/1720.pdf|title=Surgeon Senjee Pulney Andy's trials in treating smallpox using leaves of Azadirachta indica in southern India in the 1860s| author1=Raman, Ramya| author2=Raman, Anantanarayanan| journal=Current Science| volume=104|issue=12|year=2013 |pages= 1720–1722}}</ref><br />
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Andy was baptised by the Basel missionaries in [[Kozhikode|Calicut]] on 3 May 1863 but after his retirement he sought to create an indigenous branch of Christianity. He also joined the freemason's movement and was involved in establishing Lodge Carnatic in 1883 where he served as second master. In 1866 he started a National Church of India in Madras. This did not however succeed.<ref>{{cite book |title=Christian movements in Southeast Asia: a theological exploration |last=Poon |first=Michael |authorlink= |year=2010 |publisher=Armour Publishing Pte Ltd |location= |isbn=978-981-4305-15-0 |page=44 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wr-sG0rWilEC&dq=ANDY%20PULNEY%20church&pg=PT41 |accessdate=20 February 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last= Collins |first= Paul M. |title= Christian Inculturation in India |publisher= Ashgate Publishing |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=XdmxDDMsRSIC&dq=Parani+Andi%2C+Pulney&pg=PA43|year= 2007 |page= 43 |isbn= 9780754660767}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last= Mannion |first= Gerard |title= Church and Religious 'Other' |publisher= Continuum International Publishing Group |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=K5BpAMxlgM4C&dq=Parani+Andi%2C+Pulney&pg=PA58 |year= 2008 |page= 58 |isbn= 9780567032867}}</ref><br />
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The Egmore Railway station was built on land that had belonged to Pulney Andy.<ref name = hindu>{{cite web |url=https://www.thehindu.com/life-and-style/metroplus/article696892.ece |title=Madras Miscellany – Whither this National Library? |date=19 September 2010 |accessdate=20 February 2010 |work=[[The Hindu]]}}</ref><br />
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== External links ==<br />
* [https://madrasmusings.com/Vol%2022%20No%2021/first-indian-doctor-with-foreign-degree.html First Indian Doctor with Foreign Degree]<br />
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