Jyotirmoyee devi biography of mahatma

Jyotirmoyee Devi is considered to be one of the pioneer women writers who captured the collective memory of the infamous Partition of Bengal that happened in 1947, along with the implications of the aftermath of such a political event.

Jyotirmoyee devi biography of mahatma

This deadly Partition on the Eastern Front, just like the one in Punjab, was followed by cross-border migrations while also marking a period of extreme communal violence that agonized and scarred several families.

Author of the famous Partition novel—‘The River Churning’, Jyotirmoyee Devi mainly depicted the lives of the women in Bengal who bore the burden of this communal divide, their bodies being inflicted with sexual violence, rape and social exclusion as a consequence to the former two.

Owing to the dearth in the literature that records such gruesome atrocities that were inflicted upon women, her work becomes extremely important. She also wrote about the life of the women and little girls of Rajasthan, and the discriminatory gender and caste