The Economic Times

At 11, she was ordered to return to her husband. She chose jail and went on to become colonial Indias first practising female doctor

At 11, Rukhmabai was married to a 19-year-old relative but refused to live with him, choosing education and independence instead. Her husband took her to court, where she chose imprisonment over returning to him. Her landmark case influenced Indias 1891 Age of Consent Act. She later studied medicine in England, returned to India in 1895 and became a pioneering practising female doctor and public health worker.