When a ‘Tagore Bahu’ introduced blouse to Bengali women and revolutionised saree: Book
New Delhi, Mar 8 (PTI) Long before Rabindranath Tagore’s name became synonymous with Indian literature and philosophy, the daughters-in-law of the Tagore household lit the torch of change and were early influences in the young poet’s life – especially Jnanadanandini Devi, the wife of his elder brother Satyendranath Tagore. In the 1860s, then-Calcutta’s Bamabodhini magazine put out an advertisement, proposing a “new way” of putting on a saree that accompanied a blouse, a slip, petticoat, broach and shoes. Soon after the advertisement, Bengali women made a beeline outside Jnandanandini’s house to buy the “controversial” blouse and to learn the modern