Masterji: A Sansi Saga

“Masterji, Nathu, was born in the tiny village of Narangwal in the early twentieth century. His Sansi caste was declared a so-called ‘Criminal Tribe’ by the British. They were forced to steal or beg for food, money and clothes. As a Sansi, he lived on the outermost fringes of the society being an untouchable.With the British ruling India and the iron-clad caste system irmly in place, he could not have anticipated much more than herding other people’s buffaloes for a living. But by sheer cha...