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India is a land of diversity. Her greatest strength is the young human resource. Education aims to tap these potentials irrespective of the multiplicity of its population in terms of cultures, religions, social backgrounds, economic power and so on. But these can be truly realized only if the nation is inclusive to the disadvantaged sections of the society. Persistence of social exclusion leads individuals or groups to be kept at, or pushed beyond, the edges of society and hinders national progress in its true sense. This paper is an attempt to discover from student teachers on their vivid domains of experiences of marginalization. A constant comparison method using Analytic induction technique was employed to analyze pre-service teachers� comments. Participants were asked to complete an open ended questionnaire pertaining to experience of Marginalization . Results of the data reveal that experiences of marginalization among students can be categorized to originating from Familial, Educational Institutions, Peer and Friends, Gender, Social/Public Institutions, Financial and Religious. Low Social Economic Status and female gender continue to experience higher social exclusion. It is paradoxical that education as an institution is supposed to play an eliminating role in exclusion effects is also amongst the forefront in promoting it.