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Sen, Haimabati, approximately 1866-1933 Women physicians India Biography. Haimabati Sen was 26, somewhat older than the average age of 21 years. Many thought the program would appeal only to Brahmo and native Christian women but this was not the case. In the first two years, there were more Hindu women, mostly Brahmins and Kayasthas, than. The autobiography, The Memoirs of Haimabati Sen, is valuable for the light it throws on women's lives in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. This memoir of an unusual woman maps the nuances, the twists and turns of the immeasurably long journey of a woman in 19th century rural East Bengal from becoming a child-widow at the age of 10 to.

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