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020			_a9780141393605
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100			_aAnand, Mulk Raj
245			_aUntouchable
260			_bPenguin Books, _c2014 _aLondon :
300			_axv, 144 p. ; _c20 cm
365			_b699.00 _c₹ _d01
490			_aPenguin twentieth-century classics
520			_aMulk Raj Anand's extraordinarily powerful story of an Untouchable in India's caste system, with a new introduction by Ramachandra Guha, author of Gandhi Bakha is a proud and attractive young man, yet none the less he is an Untouchable - an outcast in India's caste system. It is a system that is even now only slowly changing and was then as cruel and debilitating as that of apartheid. Into this vivid re-creation of one day in the life of Bakha, sweeper and toilet-cleaner, Anand pours a vitality, fire and richness of detail that earn his place as one of the twentieth century's most important Indian writers. "One of the most eloquent and imaginative works to deal with this difficult and emotive subject". (Martin Seymour-Smith). "It recalled to me very vividly the occasions I have walked 'the wrong way' in an Indian city, and it is a way down which no novelist has yet taken me". (E. M. Forster) Bakha is a proud and attractive young man, yet none the less he is an Untouchable - an outcast in India's caste system.
650			_aCaste India Fiction
650			_aClass consciousness
650			_aDalits Fiction
650			_aCultural Heritage
650			_aSocial conditions
650			_aPsychological fiction
650			_aIndia Social conditions
650			_aHistorical fiction
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