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[[File:Gurubal Karmarkar, a 1892 graduate of Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania (2).jpg|thumb|Gurubai Karmarkar as a graduate of Women's Medical College of Pennsylvania (1892)]]<br />
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'''Gurubai Karmarkar''' (died 1932) was the second [[India]]n woman to graduate from the [[Women's Medical College of Pennsylvania]] in 1886.<ref name="books.google">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Mm14U_6JVwoC |title=Ramanna, Mridula. ''Health Care in Bombay Presidency, 1896-1930.'' Primus Books: 2012. page 138-139 |isbn=9789380607245 |accessdate=2012-08-30|last1=Ramanna |first1=Mridula |year=2012 }}</ref><br />
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==Medical career==<br />
[[File:Dr. Gurubal Karmarkar (1918) 01.png|thumb|Dr. Gurubal Karmarkar (1918)]]<br />
Gurubai Karmarkar returned to India in 1893 after receiving her medical degree. She worked for the 23 years at the American Marathi Mission, a [[Christianity|Christian]] establishment, in [[Bombay]], India.<ref name="books.google" /> Her medical work focused mainly on the most disenfranchised members of the Indian [[Caste system in India|caste]] system. A prominent group in her practice were women of all castes.<ref>{{Cite journal | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=VRDSAAAAMAAJ&q=%22+Gurubai+Karmarkar%22&pg=RA2-PA119 | title = Annual report - American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions | last1 = Missions | first1 = American Board of Commissioners for Foreign | year = 1915}}</ref> In one letter to the Woman's board of missions, Dr. Karmarkar tells the stories of two "young child-wives" she treated over the past year. Both young woman suffered abuse from their husbands and in-laws. The first young wife had been branded on her foot to stop her from running away. The second wife was malnourished and was suffering from a severe fever. Dr. Karmarkar uses these two stories as a way to illustrate the plight of Indian women to her counterparts in the [[United States]].<ref>{{Cite journal | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=VyceAQAAMAAJ&q=%22+Gurubai+Karmarkar%22&pg=PA156 | title = Life and light for woman | last1 = Boston | first1 = Woman's Board of Missions | year = 1896}}</ref><br />
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Karmarkar was a member of the National Board of the [[YWCA]] in India.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=KtMRAQAAMAAJ&dq=Minnesota%20women&pg=PA113#v=onepage&q&f=false "Dr. Gurabai Kamarkar"] ''The Woman Citizen'' (6 July 1918): 113.</ref><br />
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*[http://www.saadigitalarchive.org/subject/gurubai-karmarkar Gurubai Karmarkar materials in the South Asian American Digital Archive]<br />
*[http://xdl.drexelmed.edu/xsearch.php?search_by=Karmarkar,%20Gurubai&search_param=name&mode=exact&t=womanmd Gurubai Karmarkar materials in the Drexel University Archives and Special Collections] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303233438/http://xdl.drexelmed.edu/xsearch.php?search_by=Karmarkar,%20Gurubai&search_param=name&mode=exact&t=womanmd |date=3 March 2016 }}<br />
*[https://archive.org/details/womenworkersofor00burt ''Women works of the Orient'' in the Internet Archive]<br />
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