Chatterjee, who has been described as a "Hindu Prince’s Daughter", was in fact daughter of a prominent Bengali Christian Missionary family born in
Punjab, India. Her father was
Kali Charan Chatterjee, a Christian convert and noted Presbyterian missionary; Her mother Mary Chatterjee and her maternal grandfather the Rev. Golaknath was also active in Christian mission work. As a child, she traveled with her parents to an international missions meeting in New York in 1887. Youngest of the five siblings, Dora Chatterjee returned to the US to study medicine at the end of the 19th century. In 1901, she graduated from
Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, now
Drexel University College of Medicine, making her the third Indian woman to graduate from the school and the first woman from Punjab to earn a medical degree. sometimes sharing that distinction with a Russian graduate,
Olga Povitzky. Chatterjee returned to India and established the Denny Hospital for Women and Children in
Hoshiarpur. She married Rai Sahib Manghat Rai, a civil servant based in the
North-West Frontier Province. And had two daughters Priobala and Leena Shielarani and two sons
Edward Nirmal Mangat Rai and Charles Rajinder Mangat Rai. == References ==