Anandibai Joshi (31 March 1865 – 26 February 1887) was born in Kalyan in Bombay Presidency, India. Born, Yamuna, she was married to Gopalrao Joshi, nearly twenty years her senior, when she was nine years old. He named her Anandi and was obsessive about her education. She was the first woman from the erstwhile Bombay Presidency of India who studied and graduated in Western medicine in the United States where she received her degree from the Women’s Medical College of Pennsylvania. She was appointed the Physician-in-Charge of the Female Ward at the Albert Edward Hospital in Kolhapur. Andandibai Joshi was only 21 when she died of tuberculosis. There is a crater on Venus named after her.
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