Shantabai Kamble

Shantabai Krushnaji Kamble
Shantabai Kamble
Born (1923-03-01) 1 March 1923
Mahud , Sangola, Solapur, Maharashtra, India
Nationality Indian
Children Arun Kamble

Shantabai Krushnaji Kamble (born 1 March 1923) is a Marathi writer and Dalit activist. She wrote the first female Dalit autobiography.[1]

Biography

Early age

Shantabai Krushnaji Kamble was born in a Mahar Dalit family on 1 March 1923. Her birthplace was Mahud which is located in Solapur. She was from a poor family. The social and economic status of her community was quite low.

Educational struggle

In India, the traditional attitude towards those belonging to the lower castes can be summed up as: "Education is not their cup of tea." So education was prohibited for the members of her community. Even worse, she was female and girls did not go to school in those days. But her parents decided to send her to school because of her extraordinary talent. According to a newspaper article, "As an untouchable, she [was] not allowed to enter the class-room and has to go through the humiliating experience of sitting outside the class and imbibing whatever she could."[2]

Her book

Shantabai Kamble's Majya Jalmachi Chittarkatha published as a complete book in 1986 but presented to readers and television audiences in serial form named as Najuka through the early 1980s, is considered the first autobiographical narrative by a Dalit woman writer. This book is included in the University of Mumbai's syllabus.[3]

Videos

  • Pioneering autobiography : Untouchable castes' woman from India Shantabai Kamble.[4]
  • "Najuka" Marathi Series on doordarshan. [5]

Bibliography

  • Poisoned Bread: Translations from Modern Marathi Dalit Literature By Arjuna Ḍāṅgaḷe[6]

Contributor Arjuna Ḍāṅgaḷe Edition: reprint[7]

References

  1. ↑ Rege, Sharmila (2014-04-01). Writing Caste/Writing Gender: Narrating Dalit Women's Testimonies. Zubaan. ISBN 9789383074679.
  2. ↑ Bande, Usha. "The double burden".
  3. ↑ Majhya Jalmachi Chitra Katha (TYBA) Shantabai K. Kamble Archived 19 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine.
  4. ↑ Animation of "Naja Goes to School" story by Shantabai Kamble on YouTube
  5. ↑ Najuka" Marathi Series on doordarshan on YouTube
  6. ↑ Dangale, Arjuna (2009). Poisoned Bread (First ed.). Orient BlackSwan. ISBN 9788125037545.
  7. ↑ Kamble, Shantabai. "Naja goes to school – and doesn't". Savari. Retrieved 24 May 2017.
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