ABSTRACT
The introduction of modern nursing and employment of female nurses in India were two other significant contributions of Florence Nightingale. Florence's involvement with Lady Dufferin's enterprise to provide medical care for Indian women who were in purdah was also significant. This was one project in public health care in British India that was not remotely connected with the army, and Florence played an important role in it by organising people to write sanitary primers essential for training Indian midwives, nurses and hospital auxiliaries at the basic level of medical care. Army sanitation was a specific task within a limited sphere and with definite guidelines. Florence was not a social reformer; she did not want to change Indian society. Florence herself was depressed about her Indian work and its lack of overt success. She considered her work as services to God. However, Florence was limited by her social circumstances and the way she chose to work.
