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Women should rethink their Inheritance

“As I’ve got older, I have begun to realize that women have been put down for so long that reservation is absolutely essential.” - Leila Seth

Leila Seth was the first woman to top the Bar examinations in London in 1957. Thereafter she practised in Patna, Calcutta (now Kolkata) and Delhi. She was the first woman judge of the Delhi High Court and the first woman to become chief justice of a state in India.