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IS 266.2
Story of an Emigrant.
from Europe and America, who, being foreigners, and
different in manners,customs and language, have not been of such
use to our women as they might. As it is very natural that
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Hindoo ladies who love their ownconntry andpeopleshould
not feel at home with the natives of the other countries, we
Indi in women absolutely derive no benefit from these
foreign ladies. They indeed have the appearance of supplying
our need, but the appearance is delusive. In mv humble
opinion there is a growing need for Hindoo lady doctors in
India, and I volunteer to qualify myself for one.
Are there no means to study in India? I do not mean to
say there are no means, but the difficulties are many and
great. There is one college at Madras, and midwifery
classes are open in all the presidencies; but the education
imparted is defective and insufficient, as the instructors are
conservative, and to some extent jealous. I do not find fault
with them. That is the character of the male sex. We
must put up with this inconvenience until we have a elnssof
cducatcd ladies to relieve these men. I am neither a Chris
tian nor a Brahmin. To continue to live as a Hindoo, and
go to school in any part of India, is very difficult. A
convert who wears an English dress is not so much stared at.
Native Christian ladies are free from the opposition or
public scandal which Hindoo ladies like myself have to meet
within and without the Zenana. If 1 go alone by train or
in the street some people comc near to stare and ask
impertinent questions to annoy me. Example is better than
precept. Some few years ago. when I was in Bombay, I used
to go to school. When people saw me going with my books
in my hand they had the goodness to put their heads out
of the window just to have a look at me. Some stopped
their carriages for the purpose. Others walking in the
streets stood laughing, and crying out so that I could hear:
What is this? Who is this ladv who is going to school
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