Sisters of Mokama The Pioneering Women Who Brought Hope and Healing to India

New York Times editor Jyoti Thottam's mother was part of an extraordinary group of Indian women. Born in 1946, a time when few women dared to leave their house without the protection of a man, she left home by herself at just fifteen years old and traveled to Bihar -- an impoverished and isolated state in northern India that had been one of the bloodiest regions of Partition -- in order to train to be a nurse under the tutelage of the determined and resourceful Appalachian nuns who ran Nazareth Hospital. Like Thottam's mother's journey, the hospital was a radical undertaking: it was run almost entirely by women, who insisted on giving the highest possible standard of care to everyone who walked through its doors, regardless of caste or religion.

ISBN:	9781638084099
Publisher:	Center Point
Imprint:	Center Point
Published date:	01 Aug 2022
DEWEY:	610.82
Language:	English
Number of pages:	500
Weight:	612g
Height:	217mm
Width:	145mm
Spine width:	27mm

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