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"[http://www.carefoundation.org.in/Clc_3.htm Nursing in India]" by Shubhada Sakurikar states that for For many years nursing training was the preserve of Europeans and [[Anglo Indian|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, implying that European and Eurasians were training prior to this date. In the years that followed, nursing schools were established all over the country in collaboration with government, state and private hospitals.<ref> [http://archive.today/0RAYS ''Nursing in India'' by Shubhada Sakurikar]</ref>
'''Other books''':
*''The Economic Development of India'' by Vera Anstey (first published 1929, reprinted 1977) mentions nurse training on page 81 [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=fq1MVCSqu4sC&pg=PA81 Limited View Google Books]
*''Our Viceregal Life in India, Volume I'' by Marchioness of Dufferin And Ava (2008) references Calcutta hospitals in [http://books.google.com/books?id=CEUYY3Gu5kMC&pg=PA83 1885] (Limited View Google Books).
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The nursing situation in the 1860s in [[Calcutta]] and elsewhere is described on [http://books.google.com/books?id=egysl1oHBI0C&pg=PA66 page 66] of (Limited View Google Books) of ''Florence Nightingale and the Health of the Raj'' by Jharna Gourlay (2003). Read a [http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/llt/55/br_25.html review of this book] by Ruth Compton Brouwer.
''[http://www.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/node/24216 Missionary women doctors in nineteenth century Delhi]'' by Kaushik Das Gupta states that St Stephens Hospital, Delhi started a training School for nurses under Alice Wilkinson — the first trained British nurse who joined the hospital in 1908. Wilkinson became the hospital's nursing superintendent and is credited with raising the standard of nursing not only in St Stephen's but in the rest of India as well. She founded the Trained Nurses’ Association of India and worked as its secretary until 1948. This [http://www.superstoresindia.com/organisations.htm link] is about St Stephen’s Hospital, [[Delhi]].
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