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Maintaining Focus: The Life and Career of Hamida Saiduzzafar, India’s First Woman Ophthalmologist
In 1947, the partition of India carved out a theoretically Muslim-majority territory out of the Indian state, sparking a bloody era of desperate migration as members of religious minorities in the new Indian and Pakistani nations left ancestral homes and sought safety within the boundaries of their co-religionists. That same year, a Muslim woman from northern India whose parents had recently passed away boarded a boat, seeking medical training in England, entirely unsure as t
Dale DeBakcsy
Oct 19
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