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From a Shepherd Boy to an Intellectual: My Memoirs

 
Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd (Author)
Synopsis

Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd goes on to say, ‘Many people from the Brahmin–Baniya castes have written about their own greatness in their autobiographies, in English and in the regional languages. But I have not seen even a single autobiography of a person born and brought up in the shepherd community’. He adds that it is in writing about themselves that people gain a sense of self-respect. Shepherd’s evocative memoirs reveal the struggle for education and dignity that a great majority of Indians undergo. As a little boy herding sheep and goats, he and his brother were the first to go to school. The author writes of his long and often interrupted journey to becoming a writer and an intellectual, without support and having to overcome adversities.

Contents: Preface. 1. Is Ilaiah an Unworthy Name?. 2. Eating the Brains and Learning the Unknown. 3. Getting Free from Saraswathi. 4. The Song of Death and Rebellion Against the Priest. 5. Choosing between Two Lusts: Life or Knowledge. 6. Do Ilaiahs Teach in the University?. 7. Working Between Adivasis and Anglicans of India. 8. My Experiments with Untruth. 9. International Victory and National Defeat. 10. What I Ate, How I Wrote and How I Lived. Index.

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Bibliographic information

Title From a Shepherd Boy to an Intellectual: My Memoirs
Format Softcover
Date published: 11.10.2018
Edition 1st ed.
Language: English
isbn 9789381345412
length 372p.
Subjects History