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Opening Doors: The Untold Story of Cornelia Sorabji, Reformer, Lawyer and Champion of Women's Rights in India
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`An important and necessary book... Opening Doors gives us a vivid larger picture of the influential worlds Cornelia inhabited.' Rajeswari Sunder Rajan, Global Distinguished Professor, New York University
`A startling example of biography through history and history through biography.' Janet Morgan, Author of Edwina Mountabatten: A Life of Her Own
`If Gandhi is the tragic hero of Indian independence, Cornelia Sorabji is its tragic heroine. Her courage, resilience and stamina were worthy of her friend and exemplar, Florence Nightingale.' Jon Stallworthy, Professor Emeritus of English, the University of Oxford
`A compelling and fascinating biography.' Martha Nussbaum, Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics, The University of Chicago
Clever, attractive and ambitious, intellectually daring and physically courageous, Cornelia Sorabji was a truly remarkable woman. As India's first female lawyer, she was original and often outspoken in her views---for example, in her criticism of Gandhi and her surprising friendship with Katherine Mayo. Cornelia Sorabji resists easy classification, either as a feminist or as an imperialist.
An Indian whose loyalty to the British Raj never wavered. A passionate advocate of women's rights whose own career was nearly compromised through her inappropriate relationship with a married man. An independent and free-thinking intellectual who depended for work on patronage from an elite circle.
Cornelia Sorabji's long and fulfilling life was anything but simple. How did she reconcile these apparent contradictions? How did she succeed in opening doors to aspects of Indian and British life which remain closed to so many, even today---and where did she run into difficulties?
Through its beguiling portrait of a determined and pioneering woman at the heart of the Raj, this rich and important story will captivate everyone with an interest in Indian or British history.
`A startling example of biography through history and history through biography.' Janet Morgan, Author of Edwina Mountabatten: A Life of Her Own
`If Gandhi is the tragic hero of Indian independence, Cornelia Sorabji is its tragic heroine. Her courage, resilience and stamina were worthy of her friend and exemplar, Florence Nightingale.' Jon Stallworthy, Professor Emeritus of English, the University of Oxford
`A compelling and fascinating biography.' Martha Nussbaum, Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics, The University of Chicago
Clever, attractive and ambitious, intellectually daring and physically courageous, Cornelia Sorabji was a truly remarkable woman. As India's first female lawyer, she was original and often outspoken in her views---for example, in her criticism of Gandhi and her surprising friendship with Katherine Mayo. Cornelia Sorabji resists easy classification, either as a feminist or as an imperialist.
An Indian whose loyalty to the British Raj never wavered. A passionate advocate of women's rights whose own career was nearly compromised through her inappropriate relationship with a married man. An independent and free-thinking intellectual who depended for work on patronage from an elite circle.
Cornelia Sorabji's long and fulfilling life was anything but simple. How did she reconcile these apparent contradictions? How did she succeed in opening doors to aspects of Indian and British life which remain closed to so many, even today---and where did she run into difficulties?
Through its beguiling portrait of a determined and pioneering woman at the heart of the Raj, this rich and important story will captivate everyone with an interest in Indian or British history.
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Professor Richard Sorabji is author and editor of over 100 books in the History of Philosophy.
Three authored books deal with the nature of the physical universe (Necessity, Cause and Blame; Time, Creation and Continuum; Matter, Space and Motion). Four deal with mind and morals (Animal Minds and Human Morals; Emotion and Peace of Mind; Aristotle on Memory; Self; Individuality, Life and Death). Further books are projected on Mahatma Gandhi's philosophy and on the idea of moral conscience.
His edited books include The Ethics of War in Different Traditions, and 90 volumes to date of translation and exposition of a period of Greek Philosophy, that was a missing link between ancient Greek and medieval Islamic and Latin Philosophy.
He is Honorary Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford, Fellow and Professor Emeritus of King's College, London, and currently Global Distinguished Professor at New York University.
Three authored books deal with the nature of the physical universe (Necessity, Cause and Blame; Time, Creation and Continuum; Matter, Space and Motion). Four deal with mind and morals (Animal Minds and Human Morals; Emotion and Peace of Mind; Aristotle on Memory; Self; Individuality, Life and Death). Further books are projected on Mahatma Gandhi's philosophy and on the idea of moral conscience.
His edited books include The Ethics of War in Different Traditions, and 90 volumes to date of translation and exposition of a period of Greek Philosophy, that was a missing link between ancient Greek and medieval Islamic and Latin Philosophy.
He is Honorary Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford, Fellow and Professor Emeritus of King's College, London, and currently Global Distinguished Professor at New York University.
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