Misplaced Pages

Kancha Ilaiah: Difference between revisions

Article snapshot taken from Wikipedia with creative commons attribution-sharealike license. Give it a read and then ask your questions in the chat. We can research this topic together.
Browse history interactively← Previous editNext edit →Content deleted Content addedVisualWikitext
Revision as of 06:15, 8 September 2005 editGurubrahma (talk | contribs)Administrators12,765 edits disambiguation to hyderabad← Previous edit Revision as of 13:37, 8 September 2005 edit undoGurubrahma (talk | contribs)Administrators12,765 edits categorised as stubNext edit →
Line 26: Line 26:
]] ]]] ]] ]]]
] ]

{{India-bio-stub}}

Revision as of 13:37, 8 September 2005

Kancha Ilaiah is an Indian Dalit scholar. He was born in October 5, 1952 and was brought up in a shepherd family living in a small south Indian village. He earned his doctorate degree in political science at the Osmania University in Hyderabad, India. His Ph.D thesis was based on Gautama Buddha's Political Philosophy.

Dr. Kancha Ilaiah is currently Professor and Chairman of Political Science, Osmania University.

He is an outspoken activist in the Dalit-Bahujan (Scheduled and Backwards Castes) and civil liberties movement.

He is the author of several books, including

  • Why I Am Not a Hindu: A Sudra critique of Hindutva philosophy, culture and political economy
  • God as Political Philosopher--Buddha's Challenge to Brahminism
  • Democracy in India --- A Hollow Shell
  • Buffalo Nationalism--A critique of spiritual fascism

His book, Why I Am Not A Hindu has been a best-seller in India.

External links

Stub icon

This Indian biographical article is a stub. You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it.

Categories: