Education


First education minister of free India
Maulana Abdul Kalam Azad

First women’s university in India
Indian women’s university, Pune. Now this is known as SNDP women’s university. Mumbai (1916)

First women’s college in India
Bethune college, Calcutta (1879)

First woman law graduate in India
Cornelia Sorabji, Calcutta (1894)

First deaf and dumb woman to be graduate
Helen Keller, Radcliffe college (1904)