# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/kancha-ilaiah
# Generated: 2026-08-14T04:37:04.904Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/kancha-ilaiah"
name: "Kancha Ilaiah"
slug: "kancha-ilaiah"
description: "Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd is an Indian political theorist, writer and a Dalit rights activist. He is a former professor of political science at Osmania University and was the Director of the Centre for the Study of Social Exclusion and Inclusive Policy at Maulana Azad National Urdu University. He writes in both English and Telugu languages. His main domain of study and activism is the annihilation of caste."
tagline: "Indian scholar, activist and writer (born 1952)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Kancha_Ilaiah_klf.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "India"
  isoCode: "IN"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1952-10-05"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           44.77
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.570989333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "کنچا الیا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump