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'''Saralabala Sarkar''' (10 December 1875 – 1 December 1961) was an Indian Bengali writer.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Ghosh|first1=Anindita|title=Power in Print: Popular Publishing and the Politics of Language and Culture in a Colonial Society, 1778-1905|date=2006|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=9780195673296|page=184|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=y56BAAAAIAAJ&q=Saralabala+Sarkar|access-date=13 November 2017|language=en}}</ref><br />
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==Early life==<br />
Saralabala Sarkar was born on 10 December 1875 in Katalpora, [[Nadia District]], [[Bengal Presidency]], [[British Raj]]. Her ancestral house was in Bhar Ramdia, [[Faridpur District]], [[Bengal Presidency]]. She was home schooled. She was married to Sarat Chandra Sarkar when she was twelve years old. Her husband died when she was twenty-three. Her grandmother was [[Shreemati Rasasundari]], a writer herself, notable for her autobiography that provided a keen insight into the life of a 19th-century Bengali housewife.<ref name="ssbp">{{cite web|url=http://en.banglapedia.org/index.php?title=Sarkar,_Saralabala|title=Sarkar, Saralabala|last1=Badiuzzaman|first1=Badiuzzaman|website=Banglapedia|language=en|access-date=13 November 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last1=Murshid|first1=Ghulam|title=Rasasundari, Shreemati|url=http://en.banglapedia.org/index.php?title=Rasasundari,_Shreemati|website=Banglapedia|access-date=13 November 2017|language=en}}</ref><br />
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==Career==<br />
Saralabala Sarkar was a writer and started writing more extensively after the death of her husband. She was involved in British Indian politics to a limited extent. She served as a Member of the Women Satyagraha Samity part of the [[Satyagraha]] movement in [[British India]]. She published her books of poetry, Prabaha in 1904 and Arghya in 1938. She also provided shelter to pro-independence activist at her home. In 1953, she became the first women to be appointed the [[Girish Chandra Ghosh]] Lecturer at the [[University of Calcutta]]. She also published her memoir, Harano Atit, in 1953. She wrote a number of essays, poets, and short stories which were published in journals like the Antahpur, Bharatbarsa, Jahnabi, [[Prabasi]], Suprabhat, Sahitya Pradip, Utsaha among others. Her collected essays were published in Manusyatver Sadhana and Sahitya Jijvasa in 1953. She published Swami Vivekananda O Sriramakrishva Sangha and Galpa Sangraha in 1957.<ref name="ssbp" /> She wrote about her grandmother, Shreemati Rasasundari, in the book ''Amar Thakuma''.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Sarkar |first1=Siuli |year=2016|title=Gender Disparity in India: Unheard Whimpers |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qwS7DAAAQBAJ&pg=PA138|publisher=PHI Learning Pvt. Ltd. |page=138 |isbn=978-81-203-5251-3}}</ref><br />
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==Death==<br />
Saralabala Sarkar died on 1 December 1961.<ref name="ssbp" /><br />
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