Opening Doors: The Untold Story of Cornelia Sorabji, Reformer, Lawyer and Champion of Women’s Rights in India
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Opening Doors: The Untold Story of Cornelia Sorabji, Reformer, Lawy...
Author: Sorabji, Richard
Brand: Random House Books for Young Readers
Color: Blue
Binding: paperback
Number Of Pages: 512
Release Date: 18-08-2010
Details: British historian Richard Sorabji's book Opening Doors: The Untold Story of Cornelia Sorabji, Reformer, Lawyer and Champion of Women's Rights in India is the riveting story of a woman who was intellectually courageous and physically daring at a time when women of this category were far and few. This tale is about a genuinely - remarkable lady, one who was a beauty with brains and ambitious too.
Cornelia Sorabji is distinguished because she was the first female lawyer to practise in India. and she was a surprisingly good advocate because she was original and unabashed in her views in fact, Sorabji was quite vocal about her criticism of Gandhi and about her loyalty to the British Raj, at a time when the freedom fervour in India was at its peak. She was also a lady different from the others because she held a close relation with Katherine Mayo.
Although a passionate advocate of women's rights, one cannot easily classify Sorabji as either a feminist or an imperialist and this gets even more complicated by the fact that she was in a relationship with a married man: considered highly inappropriate in her times. A free thinker and an independent woman, Cornelia did have a fulfilling and long life. But what intrigues one and all is how the lady managed to do it at all when her peers were asked to remain indoors. It is to open the doors to the kind of life Cornelia Sorabji led, one that was full of contradictions that she managed to crush, that Richard Sorabji, her nephew has penned this unprecedented read.
Opening Doors: The Untold Story of Cornelia Sorabji, Reformer, Lawyer and Champion of Women's Rights in India was published by Penguin India in 2010. It is available in paperback.
EAN: 9780143066798
Package Dimensions: 8.9 x 5.9 x 1.1 inches
Languages: English
