Writing in The Telegraph, Julie Banerjee Mehta celebrates the 150th anniversary of Rassundari Devi’s landmark work, Amar Jiban, the first full-length autobiography in Bengali. Presented at an International Translation Day event, the new revised and annotated edition by Ananda Lal and Enakshi Chatterjee brings Devi’s historic triumph over patriarchal barriers to modern global audiences.
Author: Rassundari Devi Translator: Enakshi Chatterjee Revision and Annotation: Ananda Lal Pages: 122 Year of Publication: First published 1999 (English translation), Reprint 2016, Corrected edition 2020, Corrected and expanded 3rd edition 2022, Revised and annotated 4th edition 2026 Price: ₹500 ISBN: 978-81-995932-9-9 (9788199593299) About the Book A must-read for anyone interested in exploring the social, female and […]
To celebrate the 150th year of the first publication in 1876 of Rassundari Dasi/Devi’s historic and pioneering Bengali autobiography, Amar Jiban, Writers Workshop has published a new special edition of the only complete English translation of the book, now a prescribed text in many gender studies programmes. Originally translated by Enakshi Chatterjee, it has been […]
