Untouchable
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Publication
2014-06-24 - Penguin Classics
Language
English
Word Count
44,000 words, Guess
Page Count
176 pages
Physical Format
Paperback
Identifiers
- ISBN-139780141393605
- ISBN-100141393602
- OCLC Control Number861356723
- Better World Books9780141393605
- Open LibraryOL27540693M
Classifications
- LCCPR9499.3.A5
- LCCPR9499.3A5 U5 1970
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.
First Sentence
THE outcastes' colony was a group of mud-wallet houses that clustered together in two rows, under the shadow both of the town and the cantonment, but outside their boundaries and separate from them.
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