Part1. Muli: An Indian Untouchable
1. Introducing Muli
2. Collecting Muli’s Life History
3. The Setting of Muli’s Life History
Part2. Youth and Hopes
4. Muli’s Childhood, 1932-44
5. Bauris ‘Lift Up Their Faces’, 1947-8
6. A Guru for the Bauris, 1948
7. Koki’s Abortion, 1948
8. ‘I Like You Sixteen Annas’ Worth’, 1948
9. Grandmother Dungi’s Death, 1948
10. Koki’s Marriage, 1948-9
11. Doctor Babu, 1949
12. Dash Babu’s ‘Hot Disease’, 1949 Part3. The Reluctant Householder
13. Muli’s Inauspicious Marriage, 1950-2
14. Travelling with Lakhi the Prostitute, 1953
15. Kia Possessed, 1953-6
16. Grandfather Dharma, 1956-7
17. The White Bullocks, 1957
18. Starvation and Family Quarrels, 1957-8
19. Brother Anadi, 1950-60
20. Kia’s Illness, 1960
21. Marrying and Divorcing a Tree Trunk, 1961
Part4. Bad Times
22. A Successful Business Venture, 1962
23. Muli’s Other Wife, 1962
24. Living with Two Wives, 1962-3
25. ‘We Sit Under People’s Feet’, 1965-9
26. Transvestites and Prostitutes, 1969-72
27. Kia’s Attempted Suicide, 1971-2
28. ‘The Taker of Discarded Rinds’, 1970-1
29. Harvest Tragedy, 1971-2
Part5. Interpretations
30. Analysis of Muli’s Life History
31. Conclusions