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Avabai Wadia: The lawyer who became India’s family planning pioneer

In 1933, a sari-clad teenager made international headlines.Avabai Wadia, 19, became the first woman from Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) to pass the bar exam in the United Kingdom. Her success encouraged the Ceylonese government to allow women to study law...

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