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{{Infobox book | 
| name = Majya Jalmachi Chittarkatha
| title_orig = Majya Jalmachi Chittarkatha
| translator =
| image =
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| author = [[Shantabai Kamble]]
| cover_artist = Chadrakant Kamble
| country = India
| language = [[Marathi language|Marathi]]
| series = serialised in Purva magazine in 1983 and was teleserialised as 'Najuka' on Mumbai Doordarshan in 1990
| genre = [[Autobiography]]
| publisher = Usha Wagh
| release_date = 1984
| media_type = First Dalit Autobiography
| pages = 143
| isbn =
| preceded_by =
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'''''Majya Jalmachi Chittarkatha''''' (translated as ''The Kaleidoscope Story of My Life'') is an autobiography of [[Shantabai Kamble]] published in [[1983 in literature|1983]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.nabindia.org/docs/talking_books_marathi_list.doc|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110719045627/http://www.nabindia.org/docs/talking_books_marathi_list.doc|url-status=dead|title=Majhya Jalmachi Chitra Katha(TYBA) Shantabai K. Kamble|archive-date=19 July 2011}}</ref> This is considered the first autobiographical narrative by a [[Dalit]] woman writer.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=1lTnv6o-d_oC Handbook of Twentieth-century Literatures of India By Nalini Natarajan]</ref> This book shows the life of Indian woman who was from lower class of the caste.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.nabindia.org/docs/talking_books_marathi_list.doc|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110719045627/http://www.nabindia.org/docs/talking_books_marathi_list.doc|url-status=dead|title=Majhya Jalmachi Chitra Katha(TYBA) Shantabai K. Kamble|archive-date=19 July 2011}}</ref>

==Plot introduction==
The [[autobiography]] ''Majya Jalmachi Chittarkatha'' by [[Dalit|Dalit woman]] writer [[Shantabai Kamble]], the [[protagonist]] of the story, Naja, bears the brunt of [[social class|class]], [[caste]] and gender. Naja is from the [[Scheduled castes and scheduled tribes|Mahar caste]], one of the biggest Dalit communities in [[Maharashtra]].{{citation needed|date=April 2015}}

Najabai Sakharam Babar (renamed Shantabai Krishnaji Kamble after her marriage), was the first Dalit woman teacher in Solapur district. she began teaching at the Solapur District Board School in 1942. Ten year, in 1952, she completed two years of teacher training and served as an education extension officer in the Jat [[taluka]] of [[Sangli district]].<ref>{{Cite book|title=Writing Caste, Writing Gender: Reading Dalit Women's Testimonies|last=Rege|first=Sharmila|publisher=Zubaan|year=2006|location=Delhi|pages=156}}</ref>

She wrote ''Mazhya Jalmachi Chittarkatha'' (''The Kaleidoscopic Story of My Life'') after she retired from teaching in 1981. It was first serialised in ''[[Purva]]'' magazine in 1983 and was teleserialised as ''Najuka'' on [[Mumbai Doordarshan]] in 1990. It has also been translated into French. The word ''chittarkatha'' literally means a picture story but also indicates a sense of pieces of pictures being put together like a jigsaw puzzle.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=Msaki69NQHsC&pg=PA157,M1 Mazhya Jalmachi Chittarkatha - The Kaleidoscopic Story of My Life]</ref>
==Sources==
*The Danger of Gender: Caste, Class and Gender in Contemporary Indian Women's Writing by Clara Nubile Published by Sarup & Sons, 2003<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=JlgAkHqGyMoC The extract Naja Goes to School - and Doesn't]</ref>

==References==
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[[Category:Marathi-language literature]]
[[Category:Indian autobiographies]]
[[Category:Dalit literature]]
[[Category:1983 non-fiction books]]
[[Category:Dalit history]]
[[Category:Dalit women]]

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