Receives a Master of Arts in History from Agra College, Uttar Pradesh. Studies the history and politics of Britain, France, and India. Learns to read, recite, and sing Kabir and comes to know scores of this saint’s Doha’s by heart and uses them to good effect in his subsequent interactions with village folk. Eats food cooked by a Bhangi caste man, and faces a boycott from his hostel mates but perseveres.

On 25 June, Marries Gayatri Devi, from Kundal Garhi village, Rohtak district, Haryana. She is a Matriculate from Kanya Maha Vidyalaya, Jalandhar, and belongs to an Arya Samaji family.