 She is best known for her short stories, which have a wonderfully understated dry wit and sharp sociological observations.Jyotirmoyee Devi was born in the Princely State of Jaipur in 1894, where her family had lived since 1857.Her father, Abinash Chandra Sen, was the eldest son of Sansar Chandra Sen who had come to Jaipur as a schoolmaster but quickly rose to the post of Dewan to the Maharaja of Jaipur.