Rabri’s ascendancy was taken by many as the rise of women-power in Bihar. Her humble background and the rustic touch perhaps inspires millions of women who never get an opportunity to acquire good education because of the social prejudices in a male-dominated feudal society, which is in turn used to keep them perpetually backward.
Manoj Chaurasia’s account of Rabri was inspired by this. He gives an insight into the making of Rabri Devi. The narrative moves on gradually from Rabri’s childhood days to her assuming power and then as the Leader of the Opposition. He talks about the strength of character of this rustic and nearly illiterate housewife who rose from the ‘dungeons’ of an anarchist Bihar–to rule and lead.
This book is essentially not a biography but a comprehensive insight into the lives and turmoils of Rabri and her husband Lalu Prasad Yadav, who rose to the ranks of Chief Ministers, in a feudal, casteist Bihar.