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칼리파의 아버지인 카심은 부유함과 가난함, 힌두인과 무슬림, 심지어 토착 기독교인들이 공존하는 구자라트의 작은 마을 출신이다. 가난한 무슬림 출신인 그는 고생에 익숙한 성실한 아이로 자랐다. 그는 마을에 있는 모스크 학교에 보내졌고 그 후 마을 주변 구자라트어를 사용하는 공립학교에 보내졌다.

카심의 아버지는 고용주를 위해 시골에 가는 세금 징수원이었는데 그는 카심이 세금 징수원이나 그것에 견줄 수 있는 존경받는 사람이 되기 위해 학교 가야한다는 생각을 가지고 있었다. 이러한 카심의 아버지는 그와 같이 살지 않았고 심지어 일년에 두세 번만 그의 가족을 만나러 왔었다.

카심의 어머니는 그녀의 눈먼 시어머니와 다섯 아이를 돌보았다. 카심은 첫째였고 그는 남동생 하나와 여동생 셋이 있었다. 막내인 그의 여동생 둘은 어린 나이에 세상을 떠났다. 아버지가 돈을 가끔 보냈지만 카심의 가족들은 마을에서 자신들을 돌보고 그들이 찾을 수 있는 모든 일을 했어야 했다.

카심이 어느정도 나이가 들었을 때, 그의 학교 선생님들은 봄베이에 있는 국제초등학교에서 장학금을 받도록 권했고 그 후 그의 삶이 바뀌기 시작했다. 카심의 아버지와 친척들은 그가 학교에 다니는 동안 최대한 봄베이에서 살게 하기 위해 돈을 빌렸다. 시간이 지나고 학교 친구집에 얹혀 살게 되면서 그의 상황은 좋아졌고 그 집에선 카심이 어린 아이들의 가정교사로 일할 수 있도록 해주었다. 그때 받은 적은 돈은 그가 생계를 유지하는데 도움을 줬다.


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(원문)
His father’s name was Qassim and he was born in a small village in Gujarat which had its rich and its poor, its Hindus and its Muslims and even some Hubshi Christians. Qassim’s family was Muslim and poor. He grew up a diligent boy who was used to hardship. He was sent to a mosque school in his village and then to a Gujarati-speaking government school in the town near his home. His own father was a tax collector who travelled the countryside for his employer, and it was his idea that Qassim should be sent to school so that he too could become a tax collector or something similarly respectable. His father did not live with them. He only ever came to see them two or three times in a year. Qassim’s mother looked after her blind mother-in-law as well as five children. He was the eldest and he had a younger brother and three sisters. Two of his sisters, the two youngest, died when they were small. Their father sent money now and then but they had to look after themselves in the village and do whatever work they could find. When Qassim was old enough, his teachers at the Gujarati-speaking school encouraged him to sit for a scholarship at an elementary English-medium school in Bombay, and after that his luck began to change. His father and other relatives arranged a loan to allow him to lodge as best he could in Bombay while he attended the school. In time his situation improved because he became a lodger with the family of a school friend, who also helped him to find work as a tutor of younger children. The few annas he earned there helped him to support himself.


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(P. 3)
Soon after he finished school, an offer came for him to join a landowner’s book-keeping team on the coast of Africa. It seemed like a blessing, opening a door to a livelihood for him and perhaps some adventure. The offer came through the imam of his home village. The landowner’s antecedents came from the same village in the distant past, and they always sent for a book-keeper from there when they needed one. It was to ensure someone loyal and dependent was looking after their affairs. Every year during the fasting month Qassim sent to the imam of his home village a sum of money, which the landowner kept aside from his wages, to pass on to his family. He never returned to Gujarat. That was the story Khalifa’s father told him about his own struggles as a child. He told him because that is what fathers do to their children and because he wanted the boy to want more. He taught him to read and write in the roman alphabet and to understand the basics of arithmetic. Then when Khalifa was a little older, about eleven or so, he sent the boy to a private tutor in the nearby town who taught him mathematics and book-keeping and an elementary English vocabulary. These were ambitions and practices his father had brought with him from India, but which were unfulfilled in his own life.