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Satyendranath Tagore
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The first Indian to enter the higher levels of the Indian Civil Service through the competitive exam held in London
Place of birth
Place of death
Calcutta, India
About
Satyendranath Tagore was the second son of Debendranath Tagore and the elder brother of Rabindranath Tagore. The first Indian to enter the Indian Civil Service (ICS) through the competitive exams in London, he was posted to the Bombay ICS, where he served his entire career from 1864 to 1897. His wife is said to have introduced the wearing of a blouse with a sari for Bengali women.
Mary Carpenter, Michael Madhusudan Dutt (lived together in London for a short while), Manomohun Ghose (barrister), Rabindranath Tagore.
(trans. with Indira Devi) The Autobiography of Maharshi Devendranath Tagore (Calcutta: S. K. Lahiri, 1909)
Rabindra Bhavan, Visva Bharati, Santiniketan
Image credit
© Remaking Britain: South Asian Connections and Networks, 1930s – present
