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Jnanadanandini Devi

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Jnanadanandini Tagore (née Mukhopadhyay; 26 July 18501 October 1941) (Bengali: জ্ঞানদানন্দিনী দেবী, Gyanodanondinee Debi) was a social reformer who pioneered various cultural innovations and influenced the earliest phase of women's empowerment in 19th century Bengal. [1]

70 relations: Abanindranath Tagore, ABP Group, AJC Bose Road & APC Road, Barrister, Behari Lal Gupta, Bengal, Bengal Presidency, Bengal School of Art, Bengali language, Bengali renaissance, Bijapur district, Karnataka, Bombay Presidency, Brahmo, Brahmo Samaj, Brahmoism, Brighton, Calcutta Club, Chitra Deb, Debendranath Tagore, Dwarkanath Tagore, England, Ernest Binfield Havell, Etiquette, Furlough, Gnanendramohan Tagore, Government College of Art & Craft, Governor-General of India, Gujarat, Hemendranath Tagore, Hyderabad, Sindh, Indian Civil Service (British India), Indian National Congress, Jessore District, John Lawrence, 1st Baron Lawrence, Jorasanko, Jorasanko Thakur Bari, Jyotirindranath Tagore, Kadambari Devi, Kensal Green Cemetery, Kensington Gardens, Koch dynasty, Kolkata, Kulin Brahmin, London, Maghotsab of Brahma Samaj, Mumbai, Park Street, Kolkata, Parsi, Pathuriaghata, Prasanna Kumar Tagore, ..., Pune, Purdah, Rabindranath Tagore, Raj Bhavan (West Bengal), Ranchi, Santiniketan, Sarala Devi Chaudhurani, Sari, Satyendranath Tagore, Sindh, Surat, Sussex, Swarnakumari Devi, Tagore family, The Times Group, The Times of India, Valmiki-Pratibha, Visva-Bharati University, Wet nurse, Women's empowerment. Expand index (20 more) »

Abanindranath Tagore

Abanindranath Tagore CIE (অবনীন্দ্রনাথ ঠাকুর) (7 August 1871 – 5 December 1951) was the principal artist and creator of the "Indian Society of Oriental Art".

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ABP Group

Ananda Bazar Patrika (ABP) Group is an Indian media company headquartered in Kolkata, West Bengal.

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AJC Bose Road & APC Road

Acharya Jagadish Chandra Bose Road, earlier known as Lower Circular Road, and its continuation northwards called Acharya Prafulla Chandra Road or Upper Circular Road, is the longest and the most important north-south thoroughfare in Kolkata, India.

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Barrister

A barrister (also known as barrister-at-law or bar-at-law) is a type of lawyer in common law jurisdictions.

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Behari Lal Gupta

Behari Lal Gupta CSI was a member of the Indian Civil Service and a politician.

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Bengal

Bengal (Bānglā/Bôngô /) is a geopolitical, cultural and historical region in Asia, which is located in the eastern part of the Indian subcontinent at the apex of the Bay of Bengal.

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Bengal Presidency

The Bengal Presidency was once the largest subdivision (presidency) of British India, with its seat in Calcutta (now Kolkata).

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Bengal School of Art

The Bengal School of Art commonly referred as Bengal School, was an art movement and a style of Indian painting that originated in Bengal, primarily Kolkata and Shantiniketan, and flourished throughout India during the British Raj in the early 20th century.

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Bengali language

Bengali, also known by its endonym Bangla (বাংলা), is an Indo-Aryan language spoken in South Asia.

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Bengali renaissance

The Bengali renaissance or simply Bengal renaissance, (বাংলার নবজাগরণ; Bānglār nabajāgaraṇ) was a cultural, social, intellectual and artistic movement in Bengal region of the Indian subcontinent during the period of the British Indian Empire, from the nineteenth century to the early twentieth century.

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Bijapur district, Karnataka

Bijapur district, officially known as Vijayapura district, is a district in the state of Karnataka in India.

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Bombay Presidency

The Bombay Presidency, also known as Bombay and Sind from 1843 to 1936 and the Bombay Province, was an administrative subdivision (presidency) of British India.

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Brahmo

A Bengali Brahmo or the traditional Bengali elites are Bengal's upper class.

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Brahmo Samaj

Brahmo Samaj (Bengali: ব্রাহ্ম সমাজ Bramho Shômaj) is the societal component of Brahmoism, which began as a monotheistic reformist movement of the Hindu religion that appeared during the Bengal Renaissance.

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Brahmoism

Brahmoism is a religious movement from the late 19th century Bengal originating the Bengali Renaissance, the nascent Indian independence movement and the wider Hindu reform movements of the period.

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Brighton

Brighton is a seaside resort on the south coast of England which is part of the city of Brighton and Hove, East Sussex, 47 miles (75 km) south of London.

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Calcutta Club

Calcutta Club (কলকাতা ক্লাব) is a social club located on Lower Circular Road in Kolkata (formerly Calcutta), India.

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Chitra Deb

Chitra Deb (24 November 1943- 1 October 2017) was a Bengali novelist and editor.

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Debendranath Tagore

Debendranath Tagore (দেবেন্দ্রনাথ ঠাকুর, Debendronath Ţhakur) (15 May 1817 – 19 January 1905) was a Hindu philosopher and religious reformer, active in the Brahmo Samaj ("Society of Brahman," also translated as "Society of God"), which aimed to reform the Hindu religion and way of life.

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Dwarkanath Tagore

Dwarkanath Tagore (দ্বারকানাথ ঠাকুর, Darokanath Ţhakur) (1794–1846), one of the first Indian industrialists and entrepreneurs, was the founder of the Jorasanko branch of the Tagore family, and is notable for making substantial contributions to the Bengal Renaissance.

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England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.

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Ernest Binfield Havell

Ernest Binfield Havell (16 September 1861 – 31 December 1934), who published under the name E.B. Havell, was an influential English arts administrator, art historian and author of numerous books about Indian art and architecture.

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Etiquette

Etiquette is a code of behavior that delineates expectations for social behavior according to contemporary conventional norms within a society, social class, or group.

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Furlough

In the United States, a furlough (from verlof, "leave of absence") is a temporary leave of employees due to special needs of a company, which may be due to economic conditions at the specific employer or in the economy as a whole.

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Gnanendramohan Tagore

Gnanendramohan Tagore (also Gyanendramohan Tagore) (24 January 1826 – 5 January 1890) was the first Asian to be called to the bar in England, in 1862.

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Government College of Art & Craft

The Government College of Art & Craft in Kolkata is one of the oldest Art colleges in India.

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Governor-General of India

The Governor-General of India (or, from 1858 to 1947, officially the Viceroy and Governor-General of India, commonly shortened to Viceroy of India) was originally the head of the British administration in India and, later, after Indian independence in 1947, the representative of the Indian head of state.

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Gujarat

Gujarat is a state in Western India and Northwest India with an area of, a coastline of – most of which lies on the Kathiawar peninsula – and a population in excess of 60 million.

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Hemendranath Tagore

Hemendranath Tagore (1844–1884), Debendranath Tagore's third son, is notable for being the first Brahmo as the first child born in 1844 to any of the original 21 Brahmos who swore the First Brahmo Covenant on 21 December 1843 at Calcutta (now Kolkata).

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Hyderabad, Sindh

Hyderabad (Sindhi and حيدرآباد; is a city located in the Sindh province of Pakistan. Located 140 kilometres east of Karachi, Hyderabad is the 2nd largest in Sindh province, and the 8th largest city in Pakistan. Founded in 1768 by Mian Ghulam Shah Kalhoro of the Kalhora Dynasty, Hyderabad served as the Kalhoro, and later Talpur, capital until the British transferred the capital to Karachi in 1843.

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Indian Civil Service (British India)

The Indian Civil Service (ICS) for part of the 19th century officially known as the Imperial Civil Service, was the elite higher civil service of the British Empire in British India during British rule in the period between 1858 and 1947.

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Indian National Congress

The Indian National Congress (INC, often called Congress Party) is a broadly based political party in India.

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Jessore District

Jessore District, officially known as Jashore District, is a district in the southwestern region of Bangladesh.

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John Lawrence, 1st Baron Lawrence

John Laird Mair Lawrence, 1st Baron Lawrence, (4 March 1811 – 27 June 1879), known as Sir John Lawrence, Bt., between 1858 and 1869, was an English-born Ulsterman who became a prominent British Imperial statesman who served as Viceroy of India from 1864 to 1869.

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Jorasanko

Jorasanko is a neighbourhood of north Kolkata, in Kolkata district, West Bengal, India.

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Jorasanko Thakur Bari

Jorasanko Thakur Bari (Bengali: House of the Thakurs (anglicised to Tagore) in Jorasanko, north of Kolkata, West Bengal, India, is the ancestral home of the Tagore family. It is currently located on the Rabindra Bharati University campus at 6/4 Dwarakanath Tagore Lane Jorasanko, Kolkata 700007. It is the house in which the poet and first non-European Nobel laureate, Rabindranath Tagore was born. It is also the place where he spent most of his childhood and died on 7 August 1941.

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Jyotirindranath Tagore

Jyotirindranath Tagore (জ্যোতিরিন্দ্রনাথ ঠাকুর) (May 4, 1849 – March 4, 1925) was a playwright, a musician, an editor and a painter.

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Kadambari Devi

Kadambari Devi (1858 - April 19, 1884) was the wife of Jyotirindranath Tagore and daughter-in-law of Debendranath Tagore.

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Kensal Green Cemetery

Kensal Green Cemetery is in Kensal Green in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea in London, England.

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Kensington Gardens

Kensington Gardens, once the private gardens of Kensington Palace, are among the Royal Parks of London.

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Koch dynasty

The Koch (Pron:kɒʧ) dynasty of Assam and Bengal, named after the Koch community, emerged as the dominant ruling house in the Kamata kingdom in 1515 after the fall of the Khen dynasty in 1498.

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Kolkata

Kolkata (also known as Calcutta, the official name until 2001) is the capital of the Indian state of West Bengal.

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Kulin Brahmin

Kulin Brahmins are the Bengali Brahmins belonging to Hindu religion, who can trace themselves to the five families of Kannauj who migrated to Bengal.

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London

London is the capital and most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.

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Maghotsab of Brahma Samaj

Maghotsav is the main festival of the Brahmos celebrated on 11 Magh each year according to the Bengali calendar to mark the anniversary of Brahmo Samaj.

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Mumbai

Mumbai (also known as Bombay, the official name until 1995) is the capital city of the Indian state of Maharashtra.

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Park Street, Kolkata

Park Street (officially Mother Teresa Sarani and earlier Burial Ground Road), is a famous thoroughfare in the city of Kolkata (formerly Calcutta), India.

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Parsi

A Parsi (or Parsee) means "Persian" in the "Persian Language", which today mainly refers to a member of a Zoroastrian community, one of two (the other being Iranis) mainly located in India, with a few in Pakistan.

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Pathuriaghata

Pathuriaghata is a neighbourhood in north Kolkata, earlier known as Calcutta, in the Indian state of West Bengal.

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Prasanna Kumar Tagore

Prasanna Kumar Tagore (also spelt Prosunno Kumar Tagore, Prasanna Kumar Tagore) (1801–1886) was son of Gopi Mohan Tagore, one of the founders of Hindu College.

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Pune

Pune, formerly spelled Poona (1857–1978), is the second largest city in the Indian state of Maharashtra, after Mumbai.

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Purdah

Pardah or pardah is the term used primarily in South Asia, (from پرده, meaning "curtain") to describe in the South Asian context, the global religious and social practice of female seclusion that is associated with Muslim communities.

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Rabindranath Tagore

Rabindranath Tagore FRAS, also written Ravīndranātha Ṭhākura (7 May 1861 – 7 August 1941), sobriquet Gurudev, was a Bengali polymath who reshaped Bengali literature and music, as well as Indian art with Contextual Modernism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

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Raj Bhavan (West Bengal)

Raj Bhavan is the official residence of the Governor of West Bengal, located in the capital city Kolkata.

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Ranchi

Ranchi is the capital of the Indian state of Jharkhand.

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Santiniketan

Santiniketan (Santiniketôn) is a small town near Bolpur in the Birbhum district of West Bengal, India, approximately 180 km north of Kolkata (formerly Calcutta).

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Sarala Devi Chaudhurani

Sarala Devi Chaudhurani (সরলা দেবী চৌধুরানী) (9 September 1872 – 18 August 1945) was the founder of the first women's organisation in India, the Bharat Stree Mahamandal in Allahabad in 1910.

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Sari

A sari, saree, or shariThe name of the garment in various regional languages include:শাড়ি, साड़ी, ଶାଢୀ, ಸೀರೆ,, साडी, कापड, चीरे,, സാരി, साडी, सारी, ਸਾਰੀ, புடவை, చీర, ساڑى is a female garment from the Indian subcontinent that consists of a drape varying from five to nine yards (4.5 metres to 8 metres) in length and two to four feet (60 cm to 1.20 m) in breadth that is typically wrapped around the waist, with one end draped over the shoulder, baring the midriff.

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Satyendranath Tagore

Satyendranath Tagore (সত্যেন্দ্রনাথ ঠাকুর) (1st June, 1842 – 9th January, 1923) was the first Indian to join the Indian Civil Service.

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Sindh

Sindh (سنڌ; سِندھ) is one of the four provinces of Pakistan, in the southeast of the country.

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Surat

Surat is a city in the Indian state of Gujarat.

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Sussex

Sussex, from the Old English Sūþsēaxe (South Saxons), is a historic county in South East England corresponding roughly in area to the ancient Kingdom of Sussex.

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Swarnakumari Devi

Swarnakumari Devi (স্বর্ণকুমারী দেবী) (28 August 1855 – 3 July 1932) was an Indian poet, novelist, musician and social worker.

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Tagore family

The Tagore Family, with over three hundred years of history,Deb, Chitra, pp 64–65.

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The Times Group

The Times Group is India’s largest media conglomerate, according to Financial Times as of March 2015.

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The Times of India

The Times of India (TOI) is an Indian English-language daily newspaper owned by The Times Group.

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Valmiki-Pratibha

Vālmīki-Praṭibhā (বাল্মীকি-প্রতিভা, Balmiki Protibha, lit. The Genius of Vālmīki) is an opera by Rabindranath Tagore.

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Visva-Bharati University

Visva-Bharati (A Central University is a public central university located in Santiniketan, West Bengal. It was founded by Rabindranath Tagore who called it Visva-Bharati, which means the communion of the world with India. Until independence it was a college. Soon after independence, in 1951, the institution was given the status of a university and was renamed Visva-Bharati University. The English daily, The Nation, notes, "Using the money he received with his Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913, the school was expanded and renamed Visva-Bharati University. It grew to become one of India's most renowned places of higher learning, with a list of alumni that includes Nobel-winning economist Amartya Sen, globally renowned filmmaker Satyajit Ray and the country's leading art historian, R. Siva Kumar, to name just a few.".

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Wet nurse

A wet nurse is a woman who breast feeds and cares for another's child.

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Women's empowerment

Women's empowerment is the process in which women expand and recreate what it is that they can be, do, and accomplish in a circumstance that they previously were denied.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jnanadanandini_Devi

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