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*There is a book called A Brief History of Nursing in India and Pakistan by Alice WILKINSON, 1958 [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/6417940&referer=brief_results Seach for a Library] which has this book. *[http://www.carefoundation.org.in/Clc_3.htm Nursing in India] by Shubhada Sakurikar includes the following information:
For many years nursing training was the preserve of Europeans and Anglo-Indians. The Jamsetjee Jeejeebhoy (JJ) Hospital [Bombay] was the first to train nurses in western India. The first Indian lady to come forward for nursing training was Bai Kashibai Ganpat in 1891 in Bombay. In the years that followed, nursing schools were established all over the country in collaboration with government, state and private hospitals.
