who is Dayamadhav in Amar jiban ?
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The second part came out in the year 1906, consisting of fifteen rachanas or compositions. Every composition is preceded by a devotional poem dedicated to her Dayamadhav, the Vaishnav godhead whom Rassundari Devi had chosen.
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Rassundari Devi is among the earliest woman writers in Bengali literature. Her autobiography Amar Jiban (My Life) is known as the first published autobiography in Bengali language.
Rassundari Devi lived in times when social reform had barely touched the lives of upper class/caste women in India. Education was unimaginable for women and a literate woman was synonymous with a wicked/cursed woman. But Rassundari refused to remain an unlettered woman all her life. She taught herself to read and write, and constructed for herself an identity independent of her husband and children. She not only earned literacy by sheer dedication and hard work, but also used it for self-discovery.
RASSUNDARI TAUGHT HERSELF TO READ AT THE AGE OF TWENTY-SIX.
The most authentic source to know about Rassundari Devi’s life is her own autobiography in which she has recorded all the major events of her life.
Birth and Life
Rassundari Devi was born to a rural zamindari family in the small village of Potajia in Pabna (western Bangladesh) in 1809/1810. She lost her father Padmalochan Roy when she was only a small child. She was raised by her widowed mother with whom she developed a deep emotional attachment for life. Her mother was a very religious woman who taught her to remember God in good and bad times. Rassundari’s writing is full of references to her mother and to God, both functioning as her significant other in structuring her thoughts and actions.
Rassundari never received a formal education – educating girls was considered a sacrilegious act in her days. However, as a child, she would sit with the young boys in the outer room of her parents’ house where a missionary woman came to teach. She would listen to the boys repeating alphabets written on the board and try to learn. Unfortunately, the school was soon burned down bringing an end to whatever little access she had to literacy. Rassundari’s later encounter with the written word proved that she had quite a good memory as she was able to recognize many of the alphabets she had learned back in childhood.
Rassundari was married at the age of twelve to a man named Nilmani Roy who belonged to a well-to-do landed household in Rajbari, Faridpur. The marriage took her to the far off village of Ramdia where, as she mentions in her autobiography, people were kind and caring enough. Still the grief of separation from her beloved mother and that too at such a tender age was too much to overcome, and she would cry all the time. A Vaishnavite like her husband and his family, Rassundari was deeply religious. Her firm faith in God’s grace along with her unbreakable spirit helped her carry on in all the challenging times