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Cornelia Sorabji

1866 - 1954

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Cornelia Sorabji (15 November 1866 – 6 July 1954) was an Indian lawyer, social reformer and writer. She was the first female graduate from Bombay University, and the first woman to study law at Oxford University. Returning to India after her studies at Oxford, Sorabji became involved in social and advisory work on behalf of the purdahnashins, women who were forbidden to communicate with the outside male world, but she was unable to defend them in court since, as a woman, she did not hold professional standing in the Indian legal system. Hoping to remedy this, Sorabji presented herself for the LLB examination of Bombay University in 1897 and the pleader's examination of Allahabad High Court in 1899. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Cornelia Sorabji is the 5,874th most popular writer (down from 5,143rd in 2019), the 818th most popular biography from India (down from 652nd in 2019) and the 103rd most popular Indian Writer.

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Among writers, Cornelia Sorabji ranks 5,874 out of 7,302. Before her are Charlotte Mary Yonge, Karim Rashid, Charles Wilkins, Oliverio Girondo, Göran Sonnevi, and Horacio Guarany. After her are David Seidler, Dina Rubina, Alberto Bevilacqua, Susanna Clarke, Ewa Lipska, and Frederick Rolfe.

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Among people born in 1866, Cornelia Sorabji ranks 147. Before her are Matthew Henson, George Milne, 1st Baron Milne, Gustav de Vries, Ernest Mangnall, Miina Sillanpää, and Maud Gonne. After her are Johan Vaaler, José María Caro Rodríguez, Saliamonas Banaitis, Herbert Austin, 1st Baron Austin, James Ewing, and David Samanez Ocampo. Among people deceased in 1954, Cornelia Sorabji ranks 156. Before her are Gladys George, Tomás Monje, Elvira Rawson de Dellepiane, Shaqe Çoba, Erik Norberg, and Gavino Matta. After her are Roberto Gomes Pedrosa, John James Shepherd, William Dod, John Simon, 1st Viscount Simon, Maud Barger-Wallach, and Irving Pichel.

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In India

Among people born in India, Cornelia Sorabji ranks 818 out of 1,861. Before her are S. M. Krishna (1932), J. H. C. Whitehead (1904), Sudeep (1973), Vijay Mallya (1955), Radhanath Sikdar (1813), and Jagjit Singh (1941). After her are P. T. Usha (1964), M. K. Stalin (1953), Jagdish Bhagwati (1934), Roshanara Begum (1617), Bakht Khan (1797), and Norman Pritchard (1877).

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Among WRITERS In India

Among writers born in India, Cornelia Sorabji ranks 103. Before her are Altaf Hussain Hali (1837), Swarnakumari Devi (1855), Varsha Adalja (1940), Muthuswami Dikshitar (1775), Nirmal Verma (1929), and Anita Desai (1937). After her are Roshanara Begum (1617), Ismat Chughtai (1915), Fareed Zakaria (1964), Saroo Brierley (1981), Abdullah Yusuf Ali (1872), and Nalini Bala Devi (1898).

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