This paper attempts to document the changing attitude of sections of bhadralok in colonial Bengal towards middle-class women’s paid work. From the 1920s onwards, a number of journal editors and contributors, overcoming their earlier inhibitions, began to propagate middle-class women’s/widows’ economic independence. However, the nature and limits of the proposed economic
At the helm of the Bengali Renaissance were the Tagores of Jorasanko, among whom was the bold and independent Jnanadanandini Devi, the bride of Satyendranath Tagore. She was a social reformer whose revolutionary style in sari made her an icon for the working women.