In 1912, Jamini Sen, a young Indian doctor from colonial India's Bengal, became the first woman ever admitted as a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow, an institution that was largely closed to women in the early 20th Century. Her story has now been reconstructed in Daktarin Jamini Sens, a new biography by her great-niece Deepta Roy Chakraverti. The biography includes letters, diaries, a journal kept by Sen herself, her article in a journal Mahila Parishad, and a synopsis written by her elder sister, Kamini. Sen's career began far from Europe's medical citadels and she practised medicine at the highest level, introducing modern clinical methods within deeply traditional settings. Despite her success in 1911, Sen was unable to hold office due to restricted privileges as a female Fellow, and it took another 11 years for a second woman, Margaret Hogg Grant, to be admitted in 1923.