Dhan Gopal Mukerji
Dhan Gopal Mukerji was the first successful Indian man of letters in the United States and winner of Newbery Medal 1928. He studied at Duff School , and at Duff College, both within the University of Calcutta in India, at the University of Tokyo in Japan and at the University of California, Berkeley and Stanford University in the US
Dhan Gopal Mukerji was born to the Brahmin caste onJuly 1890, in a village near Calcutta on the edge of a jungle called Kajangal. His father, whom he describes as an Olympian who was lost in the world was a lawyer who gave up his practice due to ill health and studied music instead, while also officiating as priest at the village temple. Dhan Gopal describes his childhood and adolescence in the first part of his autobiography Caste and Outcast . Caste details Dhan Gopals induction into the Brahminical tradition of his ancestors, and his experiences wandering for a year as an ascetic, as was the custom for boys in strict priestly households. However, disillusioned with the traditional role and impatient of the backwardlooking element in strict Hindu society, he left the ascetic life to study at the University of Calcutta. Here, in the circle of his brother Jadugopal Mukherjees friends, he came in contact with the ideas of the Bengal resistance. Jadu Gopal was subsequently jailed wit
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