Mulk Raj Anand’s Untouchable as an Epic of Misery

Abstract

Problem of untouchabilty is still prevalent in the society and Mulk Raj Anand through his novel, Untouchable   brings to light the sorrows and sufferings that high caste Hindus inflicted on the untouchables. Mulk Raj Anand's Untouchable, is more compact than his other novels. The novel Untouchable, published in 1935, centres around a sweeper boy, Bakha. The eighteen year boy Bakha, son of Lakha, the jamadar of sweepers is a child of the twentieth century, and the impact of new influences reverberates within him.