Question

How did Rashsundari Devi learn to read and write ?

Answer 1

Rashsundari Devi (1800-1890) was born in West Bengal. She was a housewife from a rich landlord’s family. During her time, it was believed that if a woman learnt to read and write, she would bring bad luck to her husband and become a widow. However even after knowing this, she taught herself how to read and write in secret, well after her marriage.

At the age of 60, she wrote her autobiography in Bangla. Her book titled ‘Amar Jiban’ is the first known autobiography written by an Indian woman.

Answer 2

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• Rashundari Debi was married at a very young age.

• She was from eastern bengal.

• She learnt to read and write in the secrecy of her kitchen.

• Later, she described her life in her autobiography written by her in Bengali language :- "Amar Jiban" that is My life.

• It was first full-length autobiography published in this language.

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There were some other women all over the India who were not allowed to get education.

The liberal families allowed the women to get educated while the conservative one's did not.

The Conservative Hindus believed that a literate girl would get widowed if she gets education where as the Muslims believed that the women would get corrupted by reading Urdu romances.

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