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| birth_date = 1886
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| death_date = 1980
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| occupation = Feminist and writer
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'''Girijabai Madhav Kelkar''' ({{lang-mr|गिरिजाबाई माधव केळकर}}) (1886–1980) was a feminist and writer from [[India]].<ref name="Anagol2005">{{cite book|author=Padma Anagol|authorlink = Padma Anagol|title=The emergence of feminism in India, 1850-1920|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YICroPrSyz4C|year=2005|publisher=Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.|isbn=978-0-7546-3411-9}}</ref> The performance of her play led to many debates about women's rights and the concept of gender roles.<ref name="Behind the Veil: Resistance, Women and the Everyday in Colonial South Asia">{{cite journal|first=Anindita |last=Ghosh|title=Behind the Veil: Resistance, Women and the Everyday in Colonial South Asia|journal=In-Spire Journal of Law, Politics and Societies |date=2 September 2008|publisher=Chellammal Vaidyanathan University of Miami, Coral Gables USA|volume=(Vol. 4, No. 2 – 2010)|pages=233|isbn=978-0230553446|url=http://www.in-spire.org/reviews/Vol.%204%20No.%202/Vaidyanathan42.pdf|accessdate=18 February 2012}}</ref> She was president of 23rd ''Akhil Bharatiya Marathi Natya Sammelan'' (All-India Marathi Theatre Meet) of [[Akhil Bharatiya Marathi Natya Parishad]] held in 1928 at Pune.{{Citation needed|date=February 2012}}

She was sister-in-law of [[Narasimha Chintaman Kelkar]]. She married into a family of illustrious [[Marathi language|Marathi]] literary figures. She was encouraged by her husband to pursue Marathi literature as a profession, and thus fulfill her aspirations. She was a prolific writer who promoted Marathi language and literature. She started Bhagini Mandal, a women's organisation in [[Jalgaon]]. She was the president of the All India Hindu Mahila Parishad in 1935.<ref name="Anagol2005"/>

Her works include ''Purushanche Band'' [Men's Rebellion] and ''Striyanche Swarga'' [Women's Paradise]. [[Padma Anagol]] describes her views on women's oppression as complex, which found themselves expressed in her works. According to her, the play ''Purushanche Banda'' was written to "counteract the effects of vilification of Indian women" by [[Krushnaji Prabhakar Khadilkar|Khadilkar]]'s play ''Striyancha Band'' [Women's Rebellion].<ref name="Anagol2005"/> The ''Encyclopaedia of Indian Literature'' describes her work as inspired by [[Hari Narayan Apte|Apte]]. Her work describes "women's suffering in the frame work of family life, moderately protesting against social injustice".<ref name="Lal2006">{{cite book|author=Mohan Lal|title=The Encyclopaedia of Indian Literature (Volume Five (Sasay To Zorgot)|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KnPoYxrRfc0C&pg=PA4058|accessdate=17 February 2012|date=1 January 2006|publisher=Sahitya Akademi|isbn=978-81-260-1221-3|page=4058}}</ref> She strongly identified herself with the traditional Hindu notions of femininity, with a mystified role as spouse and mother, asking for trivial concessions.<ref name="Das1995">{{cite book|author=Sisir Kumar Das|title=History of Indian Literature: .1911-1956, struggle for freedom : triumph and tragedy|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sqBjpV9OzcsC&pg=PA347|year=1995|publisher=Sahitya Akademi|isbn=978-81-7201-798-9|page=347}}</ref>

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