Muktabai Dixit Explained

Muktabai Dixit
Native Name:मुक्ताबाई दीक्षित
Native Name Lang:dev
Birth Date:December 1901
Birth Place:Maharashtra, India
Death Date:October 17, 1977
Death Place:Pune, Maharashtra, India
Occupation:Writer
Language:Marathi
Nationality:Indian
Citizenship:Indian
Education:Hujurpaga girls' school
Alma Mater:S. P. College
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Notableworks:Manas Lahari, Aniruddha Prawaha, Jugar
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Muktabai Dixit (Devanagari: मुक्ताबाई दीक्षित) (1901 or 1902 - 1977) was a Marathi writer from Maharashtra, India.[1] [2]

Biography

She was born in December 1901 in the town of Edalabad in Khandesh. After finishing her high school education in Huzurpaga girls' school in Pune in 1922, she received her college education at S. P. College, also in Pune, to obtain her B.A. degree in philosophy and psychology from Mumbai University. After receiving a degree in teaching, she served as a teacher for seven years at Maharani High School in Baroda. In 1935, she obtained a master's degree in Marathi literature from Nagpur University and joined the faculty of Thackersey College of SNDT Women's University in Pune as a professor of Marathi. Her husband owned the shop 'International Book Service', which is located in the Deccan Gymkhana area of Pune.

Literary work

Collections of short stories

Plays

Critiques

Notes and References

  1. Book: A History of Modern Marathi Literature: 1800-1990 . 275 . Maharashtra Sahitya Parishad . 1998.
  2. Book: Mukherjee, Tutun . Staging Resistance: Plays by Women in Translation . 265 . Oxford University Press . 2005 . 9780195670080.
  3. Book: Bhagwat, Hemangi . Politics of Gender: Women and Theatre . 4–5 . Laxmi Book Publication . 2016 . 9781365076800.