Google Feature — Rukhmabai Raut Doodle
153rd Birth Anniversary of Rukhmabai Raut
Today marks the 153rd birth anniversary of Rukhmabai Raut (November 22, 1864 – September 25, 1955), also known as Rakhmabai Raut, who overcame numerous obstacles to become one of the first practicing women doctors in British India.
Doctors Kadambini Ganguly and Anandi Gopal Joshi became the first Indian women to receive medical degrees in 1886. However, only Dr Ganguly went on to practice medicine, making Raut the second woman to both receive a medical degree and practice medicine.
She was born in Mumbai, then Bombay, on November 22, 1864. She was a child bride, married off at the age of 11, to Dadaji Bhikaji, 19. Child marriage was a common practice among Indians then. She did not stop with medicine, choosing to become a social reformer until her death at the age of 91, on September 25, 1955.
She wrote against child marriage and women’s purdah (seclusion). She was also at the center of a historical 19th-century court case which resulted in a law titled Age of Consent Act, 1891.
India’s Second Practicing Woman Doctor — Rukhmabai Raut
(November 22, 1864 – September 25, 1955)
The government advocated education and emancipation but when a woman refused to be a slave the government comes to break her spirit allowing its law to become instrument for riveting her chains.
Google today celebrates the 153rd Birth Anniversary of Rukhmabai Raut with a doodle.
On clicking the doodle, it takes the visitor to Google search result page for news on Rukhmabai Raut.
Google Doodle — Rukhmabai Raut’s 153rd Birthday
GoogleDoodle celebrates Rukhmabai Raut’s 153rd Birthday in today’s GoogleDoodle!
Born on this day in Bombay (now Mumbai) in 1864, Rukhmabai Raut was one of the first women to practice medicine in colonial India. Backed by the British director of Bombay’s Cama Hospital, suffrage activists, and other supporters, Raut set off in 1889 for the the London School of Medicine for Women and obtained her qualifications at Edinburgh, Glasgow, and Brussels. She then joined a hospital in Surat, serving as chief medical officer the next 35 years.
As an activist, Raut fought to stamp out child marriage. Married at age 11 to a 19-year-old groom chosen by her mother, Raut refused to live with her husband, winding up at the center of one of India’s most famous 19th-century court cases. Her bravery in defying contemporary Indian social customs attracted scrutiny in the British press and led to the passage of the Age of Consent Act in 1891.
Today’s Doodle by illustrator Shreya Gupta shows the courageous doctor among her patients, doing the dedicated work of a skilled physician.
Below is a picture of the Doodle on Google’s home page as it appeared today.
Rukhmabai Raut’s 153rd Birthday
Rukhmabai Raut Google Doodle
Published on November 21, 2017 by Doodle Videos.
Rukhmabai Raut or Rakhmabai Raut, was an Indian woman who became one of the first practising woman doctors in colonial India. She was also at the heart of a landmark legal case which led to the enactment of the Age of Consent Act, 1891.
Over the years, doodles on the Google homepage have made searching on Google more fun and enjoyable for its users worldwide. When doodles were first created, nobody had anticipated how popular and integral they would become to the Google search experience. Nowadays, many users excitedly anticipate the release of each new doodle and some even collect them!
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