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Aamar Jiban (An Autobiography) By

Rassundari Devi
AUGUST 17, 2017
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Aamar Jiban, published in 1876, is an autobiography by Rassundari Devi. It is the  rst

autobiography written by an Indian woman and also the rst written by any Bengali male
or female. It tells us about the status of women in the 19th century Indian society. It was
the rst full length autobiography published in the Bengali language.

Nineteen century education viewed a traumatic  experience as it uprooted a child from

security of her own home and exiled her forever to mercy and control of other strangers.

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The title in itself mentions all about a woman, Rassundari Devi, that depicts her pain,
struggle, determination, hope and success that she has faced in terms of education.

Her life story focuses on issues such as child marriage, caste, education, superstition and
discrimination because her writing and her life stood in a peculiarly signi cant
relationship to each other. This was so because she being fourteen was unwillingly
thrown into the marriage ritual for which she was not developed both physically and
mentally as it was a superstition that if a woman reads and writes, then she is destined to
be a widow. It felt to me as if a meek and submissive woman has committed a crime by
bringing up the idea of education and also as if she was going against the grain of familial
and social expectations. Moreover, in my opinion, a kind of paradox is set in the society
that women’s job is to maintain the unending ow of domestic chores of cooking and
child rearing. Therefore, it can be said that she in a way has proclaimed her predicament
to the whole world through print and by reserving the image of a self-effacing wife who
suffers her deprivations with smiling forbearance.

Rassundari Devi had an irrepressible urge to read but was forbidden from the path of
education because she was a woman thus highlighting the idea of inequality. But, she
holds a strong position in terms of education by the talent of her writing skills thus
creating equality in the society by becoming an inspiration for many other women. Thus,
it can be concluded by the very famous quote that a feminist author Virginia Wolf has
said “A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write a ction.” And
lastly, it also states the concept of Bildungsroman as she from a lower stature has
successfully developed herself into a published writer.

A must read as it gives a deep insight on the life of Indian women in the nineteenth
century India.

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