A Sordid Reality in the World of Dalits- A Critical Study of Mulk Raj Anand’s Coolie and Untouchable with An Evaluation of Wretched Condition in Arundhati Roy’s the God of Small Things

Abstract

Dalits are treated as the worst as they are not. They have to misinterpret in the world of a so called sophisticated society of India by the upper caste ones. They have been called a slice of sordid reality which symbolizes the sufferings stigma in which the Dalits are doomed to live as the result of the present ideological assumptions about caste which has been very so deeply ingrained in the Indian mind that one has wrestled with oneself to feel free from the change of this thousand years old rotten system. Through this paper I want to lay down some of my points that have been expressed in Mulk Raj Anand’s novels Untouchable, Coolie and Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things where both of the authors have presented Dalit’s sufferings, struggle and exploitation.