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At a time when it was tough for women to make their mark in public space, one woman from Tamil Nadu broke barriers after barriers and finally shattered the glass ceilings. Therefore, he asked for this definition to be dropped in favour of a definition everyone was aware of.

Will you send any of them to this profession?” It is said that there was a stunned silence in the legislature and this argument clinched the bill in Dr Reddy’s favour.

Satyamurthi indeed opposed certain sections of the bill. Initially, the college offered her the L. M&S or the Licentiate, not the degree course. They have tried this age-old trick on Dr Muthulakshmi Reddy to date.

Through Avvai Home, she also ensured that they trained teachers, midwives, nurses, health visitors, and Grama Sevikas.

In 1930, she successfully moved the Act for the Suppression of Immoral Traffic in Women and Children. When Dr T Sundara Reddy, a medical doctor educated in England, asked for her hand, she famously told him, “Promise me that you would always respect me as an equal and never cross my wishes.” After being engaged for a year, Dr Muthulakshmi Reddy and Dr T Sundara Reddy married in April 1914.

Not one to be cowed down by impediments, the young Muthulakshmi fought her way to the degree course and passed the MB & CM degree with many medals and accolades as the number one in her batch. He feared it might include any other unmarried woman worker in the temple, like a sweeper, and hinder the service they are rendering to the temple.

Muthulakshmi Reddy.” Cancer Institute (WIA), Adyar. But she strongly rebelled against the decision and made her mother understand how important education is for girls?

🔹With the support of her family, she successfully enrolled as the First Woman Medical Student in Madras Medical College.

🔹She was India’s first woman medical graduate in 1912.

She then progressed to a boy’s school where she learned the English alphabet thanks to the teachers who saw the potential in this little girl. She opened hostels for Muslim girls and gave out scholarships for Harijan girls.Like most prolific personalities of her time, she was greatly influenced by Gandhi, Anne Besant and Sarojini Naidu.

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Nayar, K. Balaji. That resolution hit a roadblock because the funds were diverted for other purposes. Talk only about the imaginary exchange between her and her college mate, a colleague in the legislature, S Sathyamurthi.
Therefore, few people know much about Dr.

Muthulakshmi Reddy. She became a favourite of Mahakavi Bharatiyar, who asked her to contribute articles for the ‘India’ magazine and invited her to speak at his home meetings. The couple had two sons, Rammohan and Krishnamurthy.

In 1925, she went to London on a Government of India scholarship for her post-graduate studies. Don’t you have wives?

Accessed September 15, 2025. Bring EVR in as Dr Reddy’s guiding light, and mentor.

She became the first lady to sit in the Indian legislature, the Madras Legislative Council, and served as its Deputy President.

Dr Muthulakshmi Reddy was a founding member of the Women’s India Association, which was founded in Adyar, Chennai, in 1917. She had very sharp views about the menace of alcohol and prohibition.

In a subsequent rollercoaster of a learning ride, Muthulakshmi was taken off school by her mother, put back in school because one of her teachers pleaded with her mother, again pulled off school when she was 13, homeschooled by her father and passed her matriculation in 1902.