ABSTRACT
Anandibai Joshee, the wonder woman, India’s first woman doctor, would still be reclaimed primarily as a daughter of Maharashtra on the strength of her traditional dress alone, when she returned to India. It was hardly surprising that, having constructed women as the repositories of culture and carriers of tradition, mainstream society willingly freed men from both responsibilities. Her acinevements were thus unjustly credited to her husband’s determination in service to national interest.
