Swarnakumari Devi

Swarnakumari Devi was born in Calcutta on 28 August 1855, the tenth child of the reformer Debendranath Tagore and elder sister of Rabindranath; educated at home, she was married at thirteen to Janakinath Ghosal. She wrote for and edited for some thirty years the monthly Bharati, composed what was perhaps the first Bengali opera, founded the Sakhi Samiti for widows and women without means, and was in 1889 and 1890 one of the first women delegates to the Indian National Congress. The University of Calcutta awarded her its gold medal in 1927. She died in 1932.

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• NovelAn Unfinished SongকাহাকেSwarnakumari Devi · 1898Literature