Question

Rani Kumudini Devi, whose birth centenary is being celebrated in 2011, was the:

Options

• First woman barrister of India

• First woman Mayor of Hyderabad 

• First woman photographer in India

• First woman doctor of India

Answer 1

First woman Mayor of Hyderabad 

Explanation: Rani Kumudini Devi was the first woman Mayor of Hyderabad. The birth centenary of Rani J. Kumudini  Devi, who established Sivananda Rehabilitation Home  (SRH), a charitable healing institution for leprosy patients in 1958, and Ramdev Rao Memorial Hospital in 1992, will be celebrated on January 23.