who was the first indian woman travelled to a foreign country?

Answer 1

sita to shrilanka

Answer 2

In the recorded history, Princess Thishyarakshitha, daughter of Emperor Ashoka, has travelled to Srilanka, carrying with her a branch of the Peepal tree under which Buddha has attained nirvana, and planted it there. There is no evidence (acceptable to historians) of any women travelling to a foreign country earlier than that.

Answer 3

Pocahontas..travel England

Answer 4

As far as the world knows it was the poor souls that Columbus kidnapped and took back to Europe were the first......... But there are also theories that the Viking did that well before Columbus. But it is not sure that the Indians survived the trip with the Viking. But it is known and is written that the ones that Columbus kidnapped did survive the trip and that later they did die of some of the disease that they had in Europe at that time............... Their names were never mention.......

Answer 5

Barbara Bush

Answer 6

Asnah Goukala krana ( white sparrow ) it was in 1221 a.c. exactely the 24th oj may

Answer 7

It was sita who was captured by ravaana and went out in srilanka acording to mythology .. dumbasses :P

Answer 8

I often end up submitting the same question on other sites

Answer 9

i think Dr.Anandibai Joshi

Medicine woman; an Indian first
Nivedita Honnatti tells the story of a woman who braved the cold winds of dissent of a traditional society to obtain a doctor’s degree in the US, at a time when it was taboo for women to step out.
The annual commencement of the Woman’s Medical College of Pennsylvania, celebrated with customary splendour, on 11th March 1886 had a wider resonance than usual.

Many had assembled to witness the ceremony of awarding medical degrees to the women students. Anandibai Joshi, the first Indian woman to graduate in Western medicine, most visibly symbolised the discursive intersection of feminism and internationalism.

Stepping on the stage for her degree, “Little Mrs Joshee, the Indian lady, who graduated with high honours in her class, received quite an ovation.” (Philadelphia Press, 12th March 1886). Dr Anandibai Joshi’s life spans just about twenty-two years, from 1865 to 1887. Hardly any life as short as hers has been so eventful and revolutionary. Life in Maharashtra in the late 19th century was steeped in ancient rituals and traditions with no hope for independent thought or action.

But a Brahmin, Gopalrao Joshi (a poor postal clerk and a widower) was possessed by the thoughts of widow-remarriages and her education of women. Having failed to find a widow to remarry, Gopalrao married nine-year-old Yamuna, but he was determined to achieve his second objective, that of educating his wife.

Born in Kalyan near Mumbai on 31st March 1865, Yamuna was renamed Anandi after marriage. After the death of their first child barely a week old, the goal now was not just elementary education for Anandi, but a doctor’s degree.

Gopalrao got himself transferred to Mumbai so that Anandibai could study in a mission school there. He felt America offered the best opportunities for medical education but he did not have the finances. Undeterred he began writing to various American institutions for funds.

At the same time, an American lady Ms Carpenter, read in an issue of The American Christian Review the correspondence between Gopalrao Joshi and a certain Mr Wilder. Ms Carpenter began corresponding with Anandibai and a warm friendship developed between the two.

Meanwhile, the Joshis’ habit of going for walks together caused a furore. In 1883, in Calcutta, people were not used to seeing a lady walking on the street.

A desperate Gopalrao reasoned, “It is better to be ignorant than to have knowledge that is useless.” The next few weeks were spent in organising the finances and gathering information about America. It was decided that she should go directly to New York from Calcutta.

Anandibai braved the storm of protest raised by orthodox Hindus but a few enthusiastic social reformers arranged a farewell function in her honour. Anandibai said that she felt it was the right thing to do as a woman doctor could assist Indian women better. She reiterated her stand that she was going as a Hindu Brahmin and she would return as one.

She also wrote to Ms Carpenter. “My design meets with the approbation of a few, say one or two to a thousand, and they are probably youths, reformers and patriots. I am not discouraged. I must not fear, but try my best and show all what Indian ladies are like.”

The Carpenter family not only welcomed Anandibai in the United States but also remained her true friends, offering comfort and guidance. Anandibai won admission to the medical college and a scholarship enabling her to pursue her studies without worrying about finances.

Her lifestyle remained austere. She always wore an eight-meter long Maharashtrian sari and ate frugal vegetarian meals. Anandibai took her final exam in March 1886. The subject of her dissertation was ‘Obstetrics Among the Hindu Aryans’. Even before returning to India, she was appointed in charge of the female ward of the Albert Edward Hospital at Kolhapur, the present civil hospital.

Gopalrao and Dr Anandibai sailed for India in October 1886. When they reached, a large crowd had gathered to receive them. Instead of criticism and excommunication, there was now great admiration and respect for this lady doctor with an indomitable will.

Dr Anandibai fulfilled her dream of returning to India as a doctor but that was all. The frugal living, the strain of medical studies and trauma of a journey by sea, perhaps proved to be too much for her frail body and failing health.

Dr Anandibai Joshi died on 26th February 1887, a month short of her twenty-second birthday. Her last words were “I did all that I could”.

Answer 10

RAJA RAM MOHAN RAY