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 , the University of Calcutta, in India, Tokyo University in Japan and at the University of California, Berkeley and Stanford University in the U.S. Dhan Gopal Mukerji was born on 6 July 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 Gopal's 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.
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