Swarnakumari Debi: Bengali Female Writer

Swarnakumari Debi: Bengali Female Writer unpacks the scholarship of the 19th-century Bengal luminary. It explores Debi’s literary activism, assesses her works in a contemporary context, and explores possible reasons for her prolonged exclusion from the dominant discourse.

Despite her reputation in the creative circles, Debi remains excluded from the literary canon and is often better known as the sister of writer, poet and social reformer Rabindranath Tagore. This book considers Debi to be o...