EAN: 9780141393605

UNTOUCHABLE - MULK RAJ ANAND KARTONIERT (TB)

The powerful story of an Untouchable in India's caste system  now with a new introduction  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.
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