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Professor Wankhede's autobiography, titled 'My Life: The Journey of a Dalit Sociologist', is a critical analysis of his life. The present narratives are based on the author's social, academic and personal experiences as a sociologist and educationist that provide new insights of a first-generation learner. It delivers ethnographic information of his lived experiences from micro (his village) to macro (worldinternational conferences, seminars, etc.), which are self-reflective and analytical that are hardly observed in the works of the upper castes. To the educated Dalit circle who oppose writing of memoir for public exhibition, he retorts, 'unless one speaks and writes, people will not know and empathize and in that case one can miss and lose the social and academic values of such writings that will be conspicuously missing from the history of a society ' (p. 11). The book consists of seven chapters. Each chapter includes his life stories having critical reflection. The strongest part of the book comprise the preliminary chapters (first to third), which are concisely articulated and enable readers to contextualize the life story, followed by a brief summary. Except the first two, al
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- Author
- Vicky Nandgaye
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 2021
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Social Sciences