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Flawed, but good
I agree that the character sketches could have been more fleshed out, but the prejudices and confusion of issues and chronology in the book seems to me to characterize Balram's less-than-stellar education and understanding of the world he lives in. Thinking of it as his own stereotypes and suppositions, and not those of the author, made these problems less bothersome for me.