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From a Shepherd boy to an intellectual my memoirs / Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: India Sage 2019Description: 359 pISBN:
  • 9789381345412
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 320.092 SHE-K
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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 the support and having to overcome adversities.

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