Sudhir kakar biography sample paper

Indian psychologist and writer (–)

Sudhir Kakar (25 July – 22 April ) was an Indian psychoanalyst,^[1] novelist and author in the fields of cultural psychology and the psychology of religion.^[2]

Biography

Kakar was born on 25 July in Nainital,^[3] a town in present-day Uttarakhand, India.

He spent his early childhood near Sargodha, now in Pakistan and also in Rohtak, where his father was an additional district magistrate during the British Raj and during the partition of India, and the family moved quite a bit from city to city.^[5] At age eight he was enrolled as a boarder in Modern School, New Delhi; he would later write about homosexual encounters in the school dormitories.

He next attended St.

Edward's School, Shimla. He began his Intermediate Studies at Maharaja's College, Jaipur, in after which his family sent him to Ahmedabad, where Kakar lived with his aunt Kamla Chowdhry, and attended engineering college. After hi