Bipti sells the land the family's hut sat on to the next-door neighbor Dhari, who tears down the hut. Years later, Mr. Biswas cannot find the exact location of this early home. Eventually, oil is discovered on the land which was sold so cheaply, and Dhari becomes wealthy.
Tara decides that Mr. Biswas, who is too young to work, may as well go to school. First, they have to find a solicitor named F.Z. Ghany to create a birth certificate for him, since such events are not regularly recorded in the countryside. This passage is heavily ironic, suggesting that Mr. Biswas, who is seven or eight years old at this point, doesn't yet exist, without documentation. The schoolmaster, Mr. Lal, has an abiding dislike of Hindus, considering them shiftless.....
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