“I had never dared to tell anyone about my desires – but now I became afraid that they might come to know what was on my mind. I dared not look at a page with written letters on it, in case they attributed it to my desire for learning.”                – From ‘Amar Jiban’, by Rasshundari … Continue reading How This 19th Century Woman From A Highly Conservative Family Became The First Female Autobiographer Of India