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  1. Jnanadanandini Devi - Wikipedia. Jnanadanandini Tagore ( née Mukhopadhyay; 26 July 1850 – 1 October 1941; Gyanodanondinee Debi) was a social reformer who pioneered various cultural innovations and influenced the earliest phase of women's empowerment in 19th century Bengal.

  2. Nov 4, 2022 · An advocate of women’s rights and a believer in liberalism, Jnanadanandini Debi has gone down in history as the woman who made the modern-day sari popular. But first, let’s discover the incidents that led up to this. Ancient India did not wear a sari blouse.

  3. This is the story of Jnanadanandini Devi Tagore – a bold, tough, ingenious and fearless daughter-in-law of the Tagore family. She lived for ninety one years and dedicated her entire life to social restructuring. Yet the Tagore family were not particularly proud of her.

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  5. Jul 20, 2022 · In the 19th century, the social reformer and Rabindranath Tagore’s sister-in-law reinvented the sari in ways we continue to wear today.

  6. Jul 4, 2022 · Learn how Jnanadanandini Devi, the wife of Satyendranath Tagore, created the Thakurbari Sari by blending Bengali and Parsi influences. She taught working women to wear the sari in public and made it a symbol of modernity and mobility.

  7. Feb 1, 2021 · Learn how Jnanadanandini Devi, the sister-in-law of Rabindranath Tagore, revolutionized the way women wore saree in India. She combined elements of European and Indian styles to create the Nivi saree, which became the dominant outdoor attire for women.

  8. Jnanadanandini was the wife of Satyendranath Tagore, the first Indian to join the civil service, and the elder brother of Rabindranath Tagore. When Jnanadanandini spent two years in Mumbai with her husband and returned to Jorasanko wearing the saree in Bombay style, she created a flutter in the Tagore household. The common Bengalis started ...