Satyendranath Tagore

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Date of birth
City of birth
Calcutta
Country of birth
India
Current name city of birth
Kolkata
Current name country of birth
India
Date of death
Location of death
Calcutta, India
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About

First Indian to enter the Indian Civil Service (ICS) through the competitive exams in London. Elder brother of Rabindranath Tagore (second son of Debendranath Tagore). Posted to the Bombay ICS, where he served his entire career from 1864 to 1897. His wife is said to have introduced/adapted the use of wearing a blouse with a sari for Bengali women.

Connections

Mary Carpenter, Michael Madhusudan Dutt (lived together in London for a short while), Manomohun Ghose (barrister), Rabindranath Tagore.

Organizations
Network
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Published works

The Autobiography of Maharshi Devendranath Tagore, trans. by Satyendranath Tagore and Indira Devi (Calcutta: S. K. Lahiri, 1909)

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Archive source

Rabindra Bhavan, Visva Bharati, Santiniketan