Untouchable
Language: English
Classic fiction (pre c 1945) Classics Dalits Drama English English; Irish; Scottish; Welsh Fiction Fiction - General General General & Literary Fiction Historical fiction India India - Social conditions Indian Literature In English Indic fiction (English) Literary Literature: Classics Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Psychological fiction Romance
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Published: Jul 3, 1990
Description:
EDITORIAL REVIEW: Bakha is a young man, proud and even attractive, yet none the less he is an outcast in India's caste system: an Untouchable. In deceptively simple prose this groundbreaking novel describes a day in the life of Bakha, sweeper and toilet-cleaner, as he searches for a meaning to the tragic existence he has been born into - and comes to an unexpected conclusion. Mulk Raj Anand poured a vitality, fire and richness of detail into his controversial work, which led him to be acclaimed as his country's Charles Dickens and one of the twentieth century's most important Indian writers.