Cornelia Sorabji
Cornelia Sorabji (15 November 1866 – 6 July 1954) was an Indian lawyer, social reformer and writer. She was the first female graduate from Bombay University, and the first woman to study law at Oxford University.
Quotes
[edit]- …next to home there is no place like Somerville
- Alumna: Cornelia Sorabji Retrieved 28 March 2025
- Dear Oxford—no other place can ever be to me what thou art!
- Alumna: Cornelia Sorabji Retrieved 28 March 2025
- I am to read law: the desire of my heart is accomplished.
- Nikita Mohta The trailblazing journey of Cornelia Sorabji, India’s first woman lawyer who fought against odds to graduate from Oxford Retrieved 28 March 2025
Quotes about Cornelia Sorabji
[edit]- Sorabji had an ambivalent attitude to British rule: she was wary of transplanting western values to India, but she opposed Mahatma Gandhi’s campaign for Indian self-rule.
- Alumna: Cornelia Sorabji Retrieved 25 March 2025
- As Vera Brittain explained, Sorabji had chosen: the wrong direction at an important moment in [Indian] history, and [had thus been] repudiated by the currents of her time … which tends to withhold from her the status that is her due.
- Cornelia Sorabji Retrieved 28 March 2025
