This is a short tribute to Dwarkanath Ganguly (1844-1898), a schoolteacher in British-ruled Bengal (India) in the late 19th-century. It focuses on his support for "Kadambini Basu nee Ganguly, who was one of the first female graduates of India and later went on to study medicine and became one of the first female doctors." But it also cites his weekly magazine called Abalabandhab (Friend of Women) "through which he began bringing to light concrete cases of exploitation and the extreme suffering of women." The Wikipedia article on Ganguly also describes his work supporting women's education, including the founding of schools and "untiring campaigning to let women students appear for university examination."
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