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| name = Haimabati Sen | | name = Haimabati Sen | ||
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| birth_name = Haimabati Ghosh | | birth_name = Haimabati Ghosh | ||
| birth_date = 1866 | | birth_date = 1866 | ||
| birth_place = Kulna district, | | birth_place = Kulna district, [[Bengal Presidency]], [[British India]] | ||
| death_date = | | death_date = 5 August 1933 | ||
| death_place = | | death_place = | ||
| occupation = Physician | | occupation = Physician | ||
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| spouse(s) = | | spouse(s) = Kunjabihari Sen (m.1890) | ||
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'''Haimabati Sen''' (1866 – | '''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]], [[ | 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> | ||
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Latest revision as of 12:22, 17 March 2026
Haimabati Sen | |
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| An older South Asian woman, wearing a sari. | |
| Born | Haimabati Ghosh 1866 Kulna district, Bengal Presidency, British India |
| Died | 5 August 1933 |
| Other names | Haimabati Ghosh Mitra Sen |
| Occupation | Physician |
| Spouse(s) | Kunjabihari Sen (m.1890) |
Haimabati Sen (1866 – 5 August 1933)[1] born Haimabati Ghosh, was an Indian physician.
Early life[edit | edit source]
Haimabati Ghosh was born in the Khulna district, Bengal Presidency (now Bangladesh). Her father was a zamindar, a wealthy member of the Kulin Kayastha caste.[2] As a very young widow, she trained as a teacher in Benares. After her second marriage, she attended the Campbell Medical College in Calcutta,[3][4] and graduated at the top of her class in 1894.[5]
Career[edit | edit source]
Sen was a physician at the Lady Dufferin Women's Hospital in Hooghly from 1894 to 1910,[3][6] and had a private practice in Chinsurah, until her death in the early 1930s.[5] She wrote a "valuable"[2] 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?"[2] Her memoir was translated from Bengali and published in English many years later, in 2000.[7]
Personal life[edit | edit source]
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.[citation needed] In 1890, she married again, to Kunjabehari Sen. They had five children together. Haimabati Sen died in 1932 (or 1933),[8] in her sixties.[5]
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ Subodh Kumar Sengupta & Anjali Bose (2016). Sansad Bengali Charitabhidhan Vol.I. Sahitya Sansad,Kolkata. p. 883. ISBN 978-81-7955-135-6.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Sen, Indrani (2012). "Resisting Patriarchy: Complexities and Conflicts in the Memoir of Haimabati Sen". Economic and Political Weekly. 47 (12): 55–62, quotes from pages 55 and 57. ISSN 0012-9976. JSTOR 23214502.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Forbes, Geraldine Hancock (2005). Women in Colonial India: Essays on Politics, Medicine, and Historiography. Orient Blackswan. p. 146. ISBN 978-81-8028-017-7.
- ↑ Mukherjee, Sujata (5 January 2017). Gender, Medicine, and Society in Colonial India: Women's Health Care in Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Bengal. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199468225.001.0001. ISBN 978-0-19-946822-5.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Chattopadhyay, Anjana (2018). Women Scientists in India: Lives, Struggles & Achievements (PDF). National Book Trust, India. ISBN 978-81-237-8144-0.
- ↑ "Book on India's premier women doctors". The Hans India. 17 October 2019. Retrieved 19 October 2020.
- ↑ Sen, Haimabati (2000). The Memoirs of Dr. Haimabati Sen: From Child Widow to Lady Doctor. Roli Books. ISBN 978-81-7436-090-8.
- ↑ "Haimabati Ghosh Mitra Sen". Oxford Reference. Retrieved 19 October 2020.
