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{{short description|Indian pioneer dentist}}
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| name = Tabitha Solomon
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| caption = Tabitha Solomon, c. 1926.<ref>[http://www.jewishcalcutta.in/items/show/529 Tabitha.]
''Recalling Jewish Calcutta: Memories of the Jewish community in Calcutta''. Retrieved 4 June 2020.</ref>
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| birth_date = 5 November 1900
| birth_place = Calcutta
| death_date = 30 July 1976
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| education = [[Dr. R. Ahmed Dental College and Hospital|Calcutta Dental College and Hospital]]
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| profession = Dentist
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| work_institutions = *[[Chittarnjan Seva Sadan Hospital]]
*[[Lady Dufferin Hospital|Dufferin Hospital]]
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'''Tabitha Solomon''' (born 1901) was one of the first women to qualify as a dentist in India, graduating from the Calcutta Dental College and Hospital in 1928. After graduation she started a dental clinic in the [[Chittarnjan Seva Sadan Hospital]] and worked at the Dufferin Hospital. A member of the Baghdadi Jewish community, she was closely involved in Jewish community causes.

==Early life and education==
Tabitha Solomon was born in 1900<ref>{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=Famous People.|url=https://aim2excel.in/career/dentist/|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=3 June 2020|website=aim2excel|language=en-US}}</ref> into the [[Baghdadi Jews|Baghdadi Jewish]] expatriate community in [[Presidencies and provinces of British India|British India]].<ref>[http://www.probashionline.com/jew-kolkata/ The Too Few People. The Jew Community of Kolkata.] Sudipto Sengupta, ''Probashi'', 22 January 2015. Retrieved 4 June 2020.</ref> She was one of the first women to qualify as a dentist in India,<ref name=FirstFemales>{{Cite web|last=Fatima|first=Zareen|date=|title=Vimla Sood, Tabitha Solomon, Fatima Ali Jinnah......Who among them are the first female dentists of India?|url=http://heritagetimes.in/who-was-the-first-female-dentists-of-india/|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=3 June 2020|website=HeritageTimes|language=en-GB}}</ref><ref name="Weil2019">{{cite book|author=Weil, Shalva. (Ed.)|title=The Baghdadi Jews in India: Maintaining Communities, Negotiating Identities and Creating Super-Diversity|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=05mfDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT318|year=2019|publisher=Routledge|location=Abingdon|isbn=978-0-429-53387-7|page=318}}</ref> graduating from the [[Dr. R. Ahmed Dental College and Hospital|Calcutta Dental College and Hospital]] (later the Dr R. Ahmed Dental College) with her Licentiate in Dental Science on 30 March 1928,<ref>[http://www.jewishcalcutta.in/items/show/530 Tabitha Solomon's Dental Certification], ''Recalling Jewish Calcutta: Memories of the Jewish community in Calcutta''. Retrieved 4 June 2020.</ref><ref name=Singh2014>{{Cite book|last=Singh|first=Priya et al. (Eds.)|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vUi6DQAAQBAJ&pg=PT26|title=Beyond Strategies: Cultural Dynamics in Asian Connections|date=|publisher=KW Publishers|place=New Delhi|year=2014|isbn=978-93-83649-04-4|pages=|language=en}}</ref> five years after the only known earlier candidate [[Fatima Ali Jinnah]], who qualified in 1923 from the same College,<ref name=FirstFemales/> and sixteen years before [[Vimla Sood]], who qualified in dentistry from [[De'Montmorency College of Dentistry]] in [[Lahore#British|Lahore]] in 1944.<ref name=FirstFemales/>

==Career==
Solomon worked with [[Rafiuddin Ahmed (dentist)|Rafiuddin Ahmed]] on the ''[[Calcutta Dental Journal]]'' and started a dental clinic in the Chittarnjan Seva Sadan Hospital. She worked at the [[Lady Dufferin Hospital|Dufferin Hospital]] in an honorary capacity.<ref name=Recalling>[http://www.jewishcalcutta.in/exhibits/show/wom_p/tabitha_s Tabitha Solomon.] ''Recalling Jewish Calcutta: Memories of the Jewish community in Calcutta''. Retrieved 4 June 2020.</ref>

She was closely involved in Jewish causes, serving on the [[Women's International Zionist Organization]] (WIZO) and welfare committees, the Calcutta Jewish Association and the multicultural Calcutta Women's Committee.<ref name=Recalling/><ref name="Ponvannan2019">[https://books.google.com/books?id=ZvJ_DwAAQBAJ&pg=PT143 "Tabitha Solomon: Dentist"] in {{Cite book|url=|title=Unstoppable: 75 Stories of Trailblazing Indian Women|last=Gayathri Ponvannan |first=|date=2019|publisher=[[Hachette India]]|isbn=978-93-88322-01-0|page=|language=en}}</ref>

==Personal life==
Tabitha Solomon had two sons and a daughter, Eric, Charles and Hebe. Avi is Charles' older son born in 1956.<ref>[http://www.jewishcalcutta.in/items/show/527 Tabitha and Avi.] Recalling Jewish Calcutta: Memories of the Jewish community in Calcutta. Retrieved 4 June 2020.</ref>

== References ==
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== External links ==
*[https://whitecoatnerd.wordpress.com/2017/03/08/remembering-tabitha-solomonthe-first-indian-woman-dentist/ Remembering Tabitha Solomon,the first Indian woman dentist.] White Coat Nerd.

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[[Category:Baghdadi Jews]]
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[[Category:Medical doctors from Kolkata]]
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