Cornelia Sorabji

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. Quotes …next to home there is no place like Somerville Alumna: Cornelia Sorabji Retrieved 28 March 2025 Dear Oxford—no other place can ever be to me what thou art! Alumna: Cornelia Sorabji Retrieved 28 March 2025 I am to read law: the desire of my heart is accomplished. Nikita Mohta The trailblazing journey of Cornelia Sorabji, India’s first woman lawyer who fought against odds to graduate from Oxford Retrieved 28 March 2025 Quotes about Cornelia Sorabji Sorabji had an ambivalent attitude to British rule: she was wary of transplanting western values to India, but she opposed Mahatma Gandhi’s campaign for Indian self-rule. Alumna: Cornelia Sorabji Retrieved 25 March 2025 As Vera Brittain explained, Sorabji had chosen: the wrong direction at an important moment in [Indian] history, and [had thus been] repudiated by the currents of her time … which tends to withhold from her the status that is her due. Cornelia Sorabji Retrieved 28 March 2025 External links Category:Women authors from India Category:Novelists from India Category:Christians from India Category:Lawyers from India Category:Women's rights activists from India Category:Women activists from India Category:University of Oxford alumni Category:Essayists from India Category:Short story writers from India Category:1866 births Category:1954 deaths Category:Women born in the 19th century