Who among the following pioneering Bengali women serialised her autobiography Amar Katha between 1910 and 1913 ?

Binodini Dasi (1862–1941), a pioneering Bengali actress and student of Girish Chandra Ghosh, serialised her autobiography 'Amar Katha' (My Story) between 1910 and 1913. While Rashsundari Debi is famous for 'Amar Jiban' (1876), which was the first full-length autobiography in Bengali [1], Binodini Dasi's 'Amar Katha' is a significant later work that provides a rare perspective on the 19th-century Bengali public theatre and the social marginalization of actresses. Other contemporaries like Kailashbashini Debi wrote 'Janaika Grihabadhu’r Diary' (The Diary of a Certain Housewife), which was written earlier but serialised much later in 1952. Begum Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain was a prominent writer and activist but is not the author of 'Amar Katha'. Binodini's narrative is celebrated for its candid reflection on her professional life and personal betrayals within the patriarchal structure of the theatre world.

Sources

1. [1] India and the Contemporary World – II. History-Class X . NCERT(Revised ed 2025) > Chapter 5: Print Culture and the Modern World > 8.1 Women and Print > p. 124