Lotika Sarkar (1923-2013) was an Indian jurist, legal educator and feminist who became a pioneer of women's studies and women's rights in India. She was the first Indian woman to graduate from Cambridge University and the first person to earn a PhD in law there, in 1951. She taught law at the University of Delhi from 1951 to 1983, becoming the university's first female law lecturer and later head of its law faculty. In 1974 and 1975 she co-authored the Towards Equality report on the status of women in India, and in 1980, in response to the Mathura rape case, she founded the Forum Against Rape; the same year she helped found the Centre for Women's Development Studies, and in 1982 the Indian Association for Women's Studies.
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Lotika Sarkar was a noted Indian feminist, social worker, educator and lawyer, who was a pioneer in the field of women's studies and women's rights in India. She was a founding member of Centre for Women's Development Studies (CWDS), Delhi, established in 1980, and also Indian Association for Women Studies, established in 1982. Starting in 1951, she taught law at Faculty of Law, University of Delhi till 1983, and also remained the head of the law faculty; thereafter she taught at Indian Law Institute. She was the first Indian woman to graduate from Cambridge University, and later in 1951 she also became the first woman to receive a PhD degree in law from the university.
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