first woman lawyer

"My father sold his land to fund our education. He was among the more progressive men in the village who believed that his daughters should receive a proper education," says Zulikha Bano, the first woman lawyer from Ladakh's Balti Community.

She was the first female graduate of Bombay University to be admitted to the Allahabad High Court. In 1889, she became the first woman to read law at Oxford University, and also the first Indian to study at any British university.