Untouchable (Penguin Classics) - Softcover

Anand, Mulk Raj

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0141393602 ISBN 13: 9780141393605

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 2014

Synopsis

Mulk Raj Anand's extraordinarily powerful story of an Untouchable in India's caste system, with a new introduction by Ramachandra Guha, author of Gandhi

Bakha is a proud and attractive young man, yet none the less he is an Untouchable - an outcast in India's caste system. It is a system that is even now only slowly changing and was then as cruel and debilitating as that of apartheid. Into this vivid re-creation of one day in the life of Bakha, sweeper and toilet-cleaner, Anand pours a vitality, fire and richness of detail that earn his place as one of the twentieth century's most important Indian writers.

'One of the most eloquent and imaginative works to deal with this difficult and emotive subject' Martin Seymour-Smith

'It recalled to me very vividly the occasions I have walked 'the wrong way' in an Indian city, and it is a way down which no novelist has yet taken me' E. M. Forster

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Review:

One of the most eloquent and imaginative works to deal with this difficult and emotive subject (Martin Seymour-Smith)

It recalled to me very vividly the occasions I have walked 'the wrong way' in an Indian city, and it is a way down which no novelist has yet taken me (E. M. Forster)

About the Author:

Mulk Raj Anand, one of the most highly regarded Indian novelists writing in English, was born in Peshawar in 1905. He was educated at the universities of Lahore, London and Cambridge, and lived in England for many years, finally settling in a village in Western India after the war. His novels on humanism have been translated into several world languages. He died in 2004.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Classics
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0141393602
• ISBN 13: 9780141393605
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 160