A View From the Margins

Contents:- CONTENTS:- # 1. Prejudices against Dalits amongst NRIs as well.: 2. Prejudices against Dalits amongst NRIs as well.: 3. Grandfather - Dhyani Singh.: 4. Machinations of village landlord against Dhyani: Singh.: 5. Betrayal of Gandhiji by self-proclaimed Gandhians: : who are not above casteism.: 6. Opposition to my admission in school by teachers.: 7. Continuous persecution at school.: 8. Headmaster relents after being seen having sex.: 9. Mother’s illness and her persecution by father and: other family members.: 10. Father’s ill treatment of mother and his affair with: another woman.: 11. First taste of untouchability.: 12. Persecution continues in the next school as well.: 13. Thakur tries to use grandfather to serve his: interests.: 14. Village trader’s subterfuge to trap grandfather.: 15. Conspiracy to physically eliminate grandfather.: 16. A murder in the village.: 17. Grandfather retaliates.: 6 A View From the Margins: 18. Family worsening economic condition leads to: frequent in fighting.: 19. Continues victimization at the school