[2] She was later awarded the Kaiser-i-Hind Medal by the British Raj[3] Her only child, a son, Kunwar Jyoti Prasada, married Rajkumari Pamela Devi of Kapurthala State.
Purnima Devi was educated at the Loretto Convent, a school for European Girls at Park Street, Calcutta, as a day scholar and in addition to English she knew Bengali, Sanskrit, Urdu, Hindi, French, Piano and Violin.
She was the first Bengali lady married in the United Provinces, her husband being the Sir Jwala Prasada, M.A., Deputy Commissioner of Hardoi, and an officer in the Imperial Civil Services, in 1903.
She was the owner of several villages in Shahjahanpur District, a beautiful hill property at Nainital (Uttrakhand) called Abbotsford, Prasada Bhawan [1] (Now lived in by her 4th generation of Prasada's who carry their ancestral heritage at best till date), a house acquired by the army in 1947 in Badami Bagh, Srinagar, Kashmir now the official residence of the Army Head and a house beach in Jagannath Puri.
She is the author of a Hindi publication, "unki bunat ki PrathaiJi Siksha" adopted by the United Provinces Educational Text Book Committee for schools.