Untouchable

Author: Mulk Raj Anand
Publisher: Penguin
Year: 2001
Language: English
Pages: 148
ISBN/UPC (if available): 0143027808

Description

With a preface by E M Forster this novel is Mulkh Raj's finest and the most controversial novel about the 'Other' India - the India of Untouchables and outcastes.

This novel in Mulk Raj Anand's finest and the most controversial novel. In this Anand conveys with precision, urgency and barely disguised fury what it might feel like to be one of India's untouchables.

Barkha is a proud an attractive young man, but he is an outcaste in a system which is only now slowly changing and was as cruel and debilitating as apartheid. Into this re-creation of one day in the life of this sweeper and latrine cleaner, Anand pours a vitality and richness of detail that has earned him acclaim as his country's greatest revealer of the 'other' India.