Title: Untouchable [by] Mulk Raj Anand
First published: 1970
Description: 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: Dalits, Fiction, Social life and customs, Untouchables, Fiction, general, India, fiction, Caste, Social conditions, Fiction (fictional works by one author), Caste--india--fiction, Pr9499.3.a5, 823.912
Places: India
LC classification: PR9499.3A5 U5 1970