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About the Book:This book presents an in depth study on Colonial Assam and women’s literary engagement. It presents that with the advent of the Colonialism, there emerged a gradual change in the socio-political sphere of Assam. It created a new understanding of gender relations and the status of women. It presaged a new era for women as they moved from the private sphere of home to the public sphere dominated by men. Women’s education played the most crucial role in making the women aware about their ontological as well as epistemological possibilities. This book throws light how women developed a sense of autonomy and agency which was reflected in their writing both non fictional as well as fictional. This book presents that the Assamese women’s writing during the colonial period had created two distinct voices. One voice is the voice of a progressive subject, who talks about women’s awareness of their position and status in the society. This voice is heard in women’s writings in the journals and periodicals. The other voice is her private voice, which we hear when she takes to writing a novel where she presents the social reality. However, women’s novels present an ambiguity too, where they present women’s awareness about their subjectivity and identity and this is evident in a subtle manner in the novels written by the Colonial Assamese women.