TY  - BOOK
AU  - Shepherd, Kancha Ilaiah
TI  - From a Shepherd boy to an intellectual my memoirs
SN  - 9789381345412
U1  - 320.092 SHE-K 
PY  - 2019///
CY  - India
PB  - Sage
KW  - Political scientists
KW  - Dalits -- Social conditions
KW  - Intellectuals
N1  - 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
ER  -