Untouchable
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- Synopsis
- 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.
- Copyright:
- 1935
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Excellent
- Book Size:
- 158 Pages
- ISBN-13:
- 9780141393605
- Publisher:
- Penguin Books
- Date of Addition:
- 10/26/20
- Copyrighted By:
- Mulk Raj Anand
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Literature and Fiction
- Submitted By:
- Worth Trust
- Proofread By:
- Worth Trust
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.
- Introduction by:
- Ramachandra Guha