"The widow daughter of one of the Judge of Calcutta High Court, Sreeyukta Ashutosh Mukhopadhyay Saraswati, was married in his residence at Bhawanipore on 24 Feb, 1908. Many important persons were present on that occasion. The marriage was performed according Hindu Philosophy."
Once when Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagrar was the director of "Tattwabodhini", Devendranath boycotted the meetings of Tattwabodhini because they were publishing the news of widow marriage. Now the situation was reversed. Not only they were publishing the news of widow marriage, widow marriage was happening in Tagoe family.
There had been a social turmoil at the marriage of the widow daughter, Kamala Devi (1895-1923), of Ashutosh Mukhopadyay. Jyotirindranath wrote in his diary on 27 Feb,1908,
" At the marriage of the widow daughter of Ashutosh Mukherjee a group of people became at daggers drawn....."Sandhya" and "Bangabasi" belonged to this opposition gruop."
Kamala Devi was married with Subhendusundar Bandyopadhyay, grand son of Bankim Chandra. The relatives of his ex-son-in-law filed a case in the court relating this incident. Neglecting all these, Ashutosh arranged the marriage of his widow daughter. But as ill-luck would have it , the second husband of Kamala was short lived.
There was no written description of Rabindranath's reactions on this issue and he who, at the direction of Devendranath, stood against the marriage of Sahana Devi,the widow wife of Balendranath, on 1307 (1901), in his own initiative arranged marriage of his second son-in-law, Satyendranath Bhattacharya with Chaya, the widow daughter of Satindra Mohan Thakur of Pathuriaghata, on 18 June 1908 (4 Asharh 1315). On the next year he arranged marriage of his son with child widow Pratima Devi.
