Sun-Babies: Studies in Colour

by Cornelia Sorabji

Excerpt from Sun-Babies: Studies in Colour

An English visitor to Kashmir was stepping one day into the little paddle-boat which accompanies every house-boat on the Kash miri river, while this knight of the ceremonies stood at attention, the cushions in their usual place.

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69 pages, Hardcover

First published July 24, 2014

About the author

Cornelia Sorabji (15 November 1866 – 6 July 1954) was the first female advocate from India when admitted to Allahabad High Court. She was the first female graduate from Bombay University, and in 1889 became the first woman to read law at Oxford University, and also the first Indian national to study at any British university. Later she became the first woman to practise law in India and Britain. In 2012, her bust was unveiled at Lincoln's Inn, London. Her nephew, Sir Richard Sorabji, is Professor of Philosophy at Kings College, London.

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