Shantabai Kamble
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Shantabai Krushnaji Kamble | |
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| शांताबाई कृष्णाजी कांबळे | |
| Born | 1 March 1923 |
| Died | 25 January 2023 (aged 99) Pune, Maharashtra, India |
| Nationality | Indian |
| Notable work | Majya Jalmachi Chittarkatha |
| Children | Arun Krushnaji Kamble |
Shantabai Krushnaji Kamble (1 March 1923 – 25 January 2023) was an Indian Marathi writer and Dalit activist. She wrote the first female Dalit autobiography.
Biography[edit]
Early age[edit]
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.[citation needed]
Educational struggle[edit]
The traditional attitude in India towards education for people of lower class and women at the time made it so education was prohibited for, however her parents decided to send her to school because of her extraordinary talent. She was awarded a three rupees scholarship for paper, ink, notebooks, and more school supplies,[1] but she wasn't allowed to sit inside the classroom and had to learn from outside.[2]
Autobiography[edit]
Shantabai Kamble's autobiography Majya Janmachi Chittarkatha translated as The Kaleidoscope Story of My Life was published as a complete book in 1986. First presented to reading audience in Purva Magazine in 1983. Later it was tele-serialized for the viewers as Najuka on the Mumbai Doordarshan in 1990 and translated into French and English. Kamble started writing her Chittarkatha after her retirement as a teacher. It is considered the first autobiographical narrative by a Dalit woman writer.[citation needed] This book is included in the University of Mumbai's syllabus.[3] Chiefly the book raises the issue of two-fold marginalization and oppression, both caste oppression and gendered discrimination towards women by their male peers.[4] In this context she portrays her struggle as a female Dalit writer. In the dedication to her book she writes, "To my Aaye-Appa [mother and father] who worked the entire day in the hot glaring sun, hungry and without water, and through the drudgery of labor, with hunger pinching their stomach, educated me and brought me from darkness into light."[citation needed]
Death[edit]
Shantabai Kamble died at her daughter's home in Pune, on 25 January 2023, at the age of 99.[5][6]
Videos[edit]
- Pioneering autobiography: Untouchable castes' woman from India Shantabai Kamble.[7]
- "Najuka" Marathi Series on doordarshan.[8]
Bibliography[edit]
- Poisoned Bread: Translations from Modern Marathi Dalit Literature by Arjuna Ḍāṅgaḷe[9]
Contributor Arjuna Ḍāṅgaḷe Edition: reprint[10]
References[edit]
- ^ Poisoned bread : translations from modern Marathi Dalit literature. Ḍāṅgaḷe, Arjuna. Bombay: Orient Longman. 1992. ISBN 0863112544. OCLC 29644277.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link) - ^ Bande, Usha. "The double burden".
- ^ Majhya Jalmachi Chitra Katha (TYBA) Shantabai K. Kamble Archived 19 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Joseph, Ancy (February 2018). "An Exploration on the Tormenting Expressions of Caste System, through the Narratives of Some Dalit women Writers". 49042.
- ^ पुढारी (25 January 2023). "पहिल्या दलित स्त्री लेखिका शांताबाई कांबळे यांचे निधन".
- ^ Maha: Shunned in school, eminent woman Dalit writer Shantabai K. Kamble passes away at 99
- ^ Animation of "Naja Goes to School" story by Shantabai Kamble on YouTube
- ^ Najuka" Marathi Series on doordarshan on YouTube
- ^ Dangale, Arjuna (2009). Poisoned Bread (First ed.). Orient BlackSwan. ISBN 9788125037545.
- ^ Kamble, Shantabai (22 April 2012). "Naja goes to school – and doesn't". Savari. Retrieved 24 May 2017.
