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Caste and Outcast (Paperback)
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Caste and Outcast (Paperback)
Series: Mint Editions
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Loot Price R219
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Caste and Outcast (1923) is an autobiography by Dhan Gopal Mukerji.
Published the year after Mukerji moved from San Francisco to New
York City, Caste and Outcast is a moving autobiographical narrative
from the first Indian writer to gain a popular audience in the
United States. Although he is more widely recognized for such
children's novels as Gay Neck: The Story of a Pigeon (1927), which
won the 1928 Newbery Medal, and Kari the Elephant (1922), Mukerji
was also a gifted poet and memoirist whose experiences in India,
Japan, and the United States are essential to his unique
perspective on twentieth century life. "As I look into the past and
try to recover my earliest impression, I remember that the most
vivid experience of my childhood was the terrific power of faces.
From the day consciousness dawned upon me, I saw faces, faces
everywhere, and I always noticed the eyes. It was as if the whole
Hindu race lived in its eyes." Raised in a prominent Brahmin
family, Dhan Gopal Mukerji enjoyed immense privileges in his native
India and came to trust in the effectiveness and fairness of the
country's caste system. As a young man, however, no longer
enthralled with the ascetic lifestyle explored in his youth,
Mukerji devoted himself to nationalist politics and eventually left
India for Japan. Unsatisfied with life as an engineering student,
he emigrated once more to the United States, where he moved in
anarchist and bohemian circles while embarking on a career as a
popular poet and children's author. Although he never returned to
his native country, Mukerji left an inspiring legacy through his
literary achievement and unwavering commitment to Indian
independence. With a beautifully designed cover and professionally
typeset manuscript, this edition of Dhan Gopal Mukerji's Caste and
Outcast is a classic of Indian American literature reimagined for
modern readers.
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