Career
She wrote the first Dalit-woman autobiography. She was from an economically and socially disadvantaged community. But her family always provided her moral strength, and gradually due to some good educational guidance, she went beyond the limitations she found herself surrounded by.
Education was the weapon which made her strong and sharp in her life.
She herself could be considered an excellent exemplar of Doctor Ambedkar"s pathological Early age Shantabai Krushnaji Kamble was born in a Mahar Dalit family on March 1, 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 Even worse, she was female and girls did not go to school in those days. According to a newspaper article, "As an untouchable, she 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." Life after marriage The chief inspiration behind conversion was Doctor B. R. Ambedkar. Ambedkar message to Dalits was to adopt Education as a way of empowerment and emancipation.
Shantabai Kamble chose to follow this path and she excelled in her chosen pathological
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 Dalit woman writer This book is included in the University of Mumbai"s syllabus.
