Uttar Pradesh’s Chhangur Baba | Baba or black sheep?
For older residents of Rehra Maafi, a village on the outskirts of Utraula city in Balrampur district, outdated photos of Jamaluddin—now referred to as Chhangur Baba—are nonetheless vivid. A skinny, swarthy man from the Pankhiya Muslim group, with six fingers on his proper hand (therefore the moniker Chhangur), biking between villages, promoting trinkets and rings….