The first widow marriage in Brahmo Society

Hemantashashi Gupta was a determined leading woman who became a widow and remarried in a revolutionary decision in 1890, the first widow marriage in Brahmo society in India. Breaking break shackles of religious orthodoxy and superstition and remarrying. She showed the remarkable courage of women's awakening.

painting on the first widow marriage

Due to his conversion to Brahma, Atul Prasad Sen's grandfather, the leader of the Brahmo community, the renowned singer-songwriter Zamindar Kali Narayan Gupta, was displaced by the Hindus from Bhatpatar Zamindari in Narsingdi and settled permanently at Kaowraid, Sreepur, buying Jamindari of that area.

After the death of her husband Ram Prasad Sen in 1884, Hemant Shashi moved with her son Atul to her father's house in Kawraid, who became a famous poet, musician, and lawyer barrister in her later years.

Here, Kali Narayan arranged the marriage of his daughter Hemantashashi Gupta. There was a great storm against widow marriage all over India. The marriage of the millennium widow abolish through remarriage in India, and the shackles of religious orthodoxy and superstition broke.

Her first husband, Ram Prasad Sen, was also a liberal man. Hemantasiri was thirty-seven years old at the time of his death. He often asks Hemantashashi to remarry in his absence. Atul loved his mother very much. He was shocked after his mother's second marriage, later revealed in his song.

Due to the revolutionary and robust decision of Hemantashashi, a new awakening in widow marriage began in Brahmo and Hindu society.

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• Source: Book: History and heritage of Gazipur district.(গ্রন্থঃ গাজীপুর জেলার ইতিহাস ও ঐতিহ্য )

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