Words To Win

Delivered in 24 to 36hrs
Words to Win incorporates a translation of major sections of this remarkable autobiography. Tanika Sarkar studies the making of an early modern subject – the woman who wants to compose a life of her own, who wishes to present it in the public sphere and who eventually does accomplish that: the words win out, in the end. The first full-length autobiography in Bengali was written in the early nineteenth century by an upper-caste rural housewife called Rashundari Debi. Published in 1868 when she wa