I read about Yasmin Surveyor, aunt of Dr Aspi Surveyor who was the first lady BCom and first female officer in the Central Bank of India ("Ahead of her times,” Events and Personalities, Parsiana, March 7, 2013).
Two of my maasis (maternal aunts) were also achievers in Madhya Bharat in those days. Daisey A. Lakdewalla was the first lady lecturer of English at the prestigious Holkar College in Indore in 1938 and there was an article about her in the Sanjveratman Parsi Gujarati magazine of those times. Her sister Khurshid A. Lakdewalla was an MA (English) who earned a Diploma in Social Sciences at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences in Bombay. She was in the first batch of the Institute.
Khurshid worked along with another Parsi lady, Katiyun Kama, in the Department of Social Work in Delhi during the Partition of India and assisted Lady Edwina Mountbatten in the Hindu-Muslim Ladies Department of Migration and Forceful Marriage in 1947-48. Later, my aunt joined a public school, the Scindia School in Gwalior and served there until her retirement. She settled in Agra and became a follower of the Radha Swami faith of Swami Bag, Agra.
Dr C. ANKLESARIA
Kota, Rajasthan