In India in the beginning of the 20th century women in India began writing novels and short stories.These writings gave a new and revolutionised concept of womanhood.Women novelists even faced criticism from the society for their writings. They mainly targeted the social evils like caste system, dowry, sati etc. which was not appreciated by the Indian society.Women writers wrote their own autobiography. They highlighted the condition of women, their ignorance and how they were forced to do hard domestic labour. In the early 20th century the journals written by women become very popular in which women’s education, widowhood, widow remarriage etc were discussed which revolutionised the world of women. Rashsundari Debi a young married women from an orthodox family who learnt to read in secrecy in her kitchen wrote her autobiography Amar Jiban which was published in 1876. This was the first autobiography written in Bengali language. Kailashbhasini Debi another lady of Bengal wrote books highlighting the miserable condition of women, how they were imprisoned in their household, kept in ignorance and forced to do hard domestic work but were treated very unjustly by family members whom they served.