Untouchable

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