Untouchable [by] Mulk Raj Anand
About this book
With precision, vitality, and a fury that earned him praise as India's Charles Dickens, Mulk Raj Anand recreates in" Untouchable" what it was like to live on the fringes of society in pre-independence India. Bakha, an attractive, proud, and strong young man, is also an Untouchable, the lowest of the low in India's caste system. A sweeper and a toilet-cleaner, he must warn others on the street of his status so that he will not pollute them with his presence. In this urgent 1935 re-creation of one day in the life of an outcast, a violent encounter leads Bakha to question his fate--and to find an answer in the unlikeliest of places.
Subjects
- 823.912
- caste
- caste--india--fiction
- dalits
- fiction
- fiction (fictional works by one author)
- fiction, general
- india, fiction
- pr9499.3.a5
- social conditions
- social life and customs
- untouchables