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RASSUNDARI DEVI
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RASSUNDARI DEVI
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Who Is She?
BIOGRAPHY
Born 1800
Potajiya, Bengal Presidency, British India
Died 1890
Her Biography
Rasssundari Devi was born in 1800 in the village of Potajia, in Pabna district. Her father, Padmalochan Roy, died when Rasssundari was a small child. She never saw her father and was raised by her mother and relatives. Formal education was not given to girls of the time. She used to be around a boy's school run by a missionary woman in her father's house. By listening to the lessons going on at school Rasssundari learned the letters of the Bengali language.
WRITINGS
Her Most Famous book
In 1876 Rassundari's autobiography Amar Jiban (My Life) was published. The book is in two parts, the first of which, consisting of sixteen shorter compositions narrated her autobiography. The second part, published in 1906, contained fifteen shorter compositions, each receded by a dedicatory poem.
She wanted to share her life experience in a form of stories. All of them were written in Bengali.
OUT OF BOX INFORMATION
Out Of Box Info
At age 12 she married Sitanath Sarkar from Ramdia village, Rajbari, Faridpur, Bangladesh. She learned how to read and write in the flickering light of candles at night. She gave birth to 12 children, of whom 7 died early. Her husband died in 1868. Her son Kishori Lal Sarkar became an advocate at Calcutta High Court and is the author of several noteworthy works.