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Dhan Gopal Mukerji

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Dhan Gopal Mukerji


Born
in India
July 06, 1890

Died
July 14, 1936

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Dhan Gopal Mukerji was an author of children's books. Born in a small village in India on July 6, 1890, he was passionate about bringing understanding of the Indian people and culture to American readers through his own unique brand of expressive and poetic language.

In 1936, the driven yet unhappy Dhan Gopal Mukerji took his own life, in New York City. He was forty-six years of age.

Dhan Gopal Mukerji's most enduring contribution to literature is "Gay Neck: The Story of a Pigeon". Written in 1927, the American Library Association awarded this book the 1928 John Newbery Medal.
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Gay-Neck: The Story of a Pi...

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3.30 avg rating — 2,300 ratings — published 1927 — 82 editions
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Kari the Elephant

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Caste and Outcast

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The Chief of the Herd

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4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1929 — 10 editions
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Ghond the Hunter

2.83 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1928 — 11 editions
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Fierce-Face: The Story of a...

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Hari the Jungle Lad

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Sandhya Songs of Twilight

4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2008 — 50 editions
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Kari & Hari

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“What a pity that most young people instead of seeing one animal in nature--which is worth a hundred in any Zoo--must derive their knowledge of God's creatures from their appearance in prisons. ... How do we manage to think that we know all about an animal by gazing at him penned in a cage?”
Dhan Gopal Mukerji, Gay-Neck: The Story of a Pigeon

“Never go to sleep with bad thoughts and torturing memories. They will not help you to wake up whole and fully serene—the two states of mind and body without which no man can acquit himself well at his day's task. A child should be ushered into the chamber of sleep with serene joy.”
Dhan Gopal Mukerji, Ghond the Hunter

“Have you ever heard silence? It is not a stillness which is the absence of sound. Silence is not empty, it is full of content. It is like the sky―intangible yet containing the stars, the sun, the moon, and all existence. That is silence and it is full of tongues.”
Dhan Gopal Mukerji, Ghond the Hunter

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