# Amar Jiban (My Life)

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- Published: 2021-09-20T20:19:48+00:00
- Author: shuktara

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**Author:** Rassundari Devi[⌊A sample cover of the book: aquamarine coloured handloom sari with gold embossed nameplate and lettering for the title and author's name. The border of the sari lines the right hand margin of the cover.⌉](https://writersworkshopindia.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Amar-Jiban-scaled-1.jpeg)
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Translator:** Enakshi Chatterjee **Pages:** 128 **Year of Publication:** First published
1999 (English translation), Reprint 2016, Corrected edition 2020 **Price:** Rs 300**
ISBN:** 978-81-944057-9-5 (9788194405795)

_**About the Book**_
 The complete, unabridged translation of the Bengali text, 
with the original introductions by Jyotirindranath Tagore and Dinesh Chandra Sen.
Sen remarks, “The account of this life can hardly be ignored as merely personal.
It is a factual document of the life of an old Hindu woman … The book _Amar Jiban_
is thus not merely the account of Rassundari but a story of all Hindu women of her
time. We do not have a second book of this kind in our Bengali literature where 
the situation of women is so exactly and frankly drawn. Come to think of it – if
this book had not been written, an entire chapter of Bengali literature would have
remained incomplete.”