Sarla Devi's family was a follower of Brahmoism, a religion founded by Ram Mohan Roy and later developed by Sarala's grandfather Debendranath Tagore.[5] From 1895 to 1899, she edited Bharati jointly with her mother and sister,[6] and then on her own from 1899 to 1907, with the goal of propagating patriotism and to raise up the literary standard of the journal.[7] With several branches around the country, it promoted education and vocational training for women without consideration of class, caste and religion.[3] In 1905, Sarala Devi married Rambhuj Dutt Chaudhary (1866–1923), a lawyer, journalist, nationalist leader and follower of Arya Samaj, the Hindu reform movement founded by Swami Dayananda Saraswati.When her husband was arrested for his involvement in Non-cooperation movement, Mahatma Gandhi visited her home in Lahore as a guest.[3] Her autobiography Jivaner Jhara Pata was serialized in Desh, a Bengali literary magazine, during the later period of her life, in 1942–1943.