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The British Rule in India has brought tremendous transformation in the social system of India. The first and foremost, it destroyed the princely states in the country and brought it under single control. Second, the people divided by states became unified and started identifying themselves as Indians. Third, it challenged the social division of people in different castes based on their works and professions. The challenge to caste based division gave birth to many social reformers in India and their efforts diluted the boundaries between margins and the centre. The mitigated boundaries increased hopes of people which in turn produced many classic stories—some absolutely fictional and some realistic. Phakira(1959) is one of such stories where Anna Bhau Sathe presents his real hero in the casteless environment of the western Maharashtra. This paper attempts to analysethe social dialectic from the dichotomy between the centre and the margin.