(Source: Express photo by Maulshree Seth)BIBIPUR Primary and Upper Primary School is situated barely a kilometre from Phool Kumari Rawat’s house. It is not good to enter into tussle with bare jinan (upper castes),” says Phool Kumari, now in her 70s. Phool Kumari held the job, which paid her Rs 60 a day, for about a month. Prodded about her, gram pradhan Shiv Govind Singh makes some enquiries, and initially says a woman by the name of Phool Kumari Rawat died two years ago. Phool Kumari doesn’t remember the year her husband died, but recalls he had contracted high fever just a few days earlier.

Source: Indian Express October 01, 2016 20:03 UTC