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Sarala Devi Chaudhurani (daughter) Swarnakumari Devi (1855 or 1856 – 1932), also known as Swarnakumari Tagore, Swarnakumari Ghosal, Svarṇakumārī Debī and Srimati Svarna Kumari Devi, [1] was an Indian Bengali writer, editor, essayist, poet, novelist, playwright, composer, and social worker. [2]
Swarnakumari Devi was the elder sister of Rabindranath Tagore and a prominent writer, editor, and social worker in Bengal. She wrote novels, poems, plays, and essays, and participated in the Indian National Congress and the Ladies' Theosophical Society.
Aug 7, 2021 · Swarnakumari Devi was one of the first female novelists and a sister of Rabindranath Tagore. She participated in the protests against the Bengal Partition of 1905 and promoted Swadeshi products and nationalism through her writings and activism.
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swarnakumari devi. born on august 28, 1855, swarnakumari devi, fourth amongst the daughters of debendranath tagore and sarada devi, was an accomplished poet, novellist, musician and social worker. she was one of the first women writers in bengali to gain prominence and went on to publish some of her writings in england
Jan 22, 2020 · Swarnakumari Devi was a pioneer of Bengali literature and a champion of women's rights. She wrote novels, poems, songs and scientific papers, and founded the Sakhi Samiti to help women in need.
Swarnakumari Devi was a prolific and influential writer in Bengali literature, who wrote novels, plays, poems and essays. She was also a musician, a nationalist and a social reformer, who founded Sakhi Samiti to help widows and orphans.
Swarnakumari Devi was the first woman to write essays on science in Bengali and to promote scientific education for women. She overcame the social and linguistic barriers to make scientific knowledge accessible to the common people of late 19th century Bengal.
