Mulk Raj Anand

This poetry, in respect of its purposive of direction as much as of its balance sheet of achievement, deserves the attention of the serious student of Indian poetry. Today the Indian novelists writing in English are large in number. Besides Mulk Raj Anand, Raja Rao and R.K. Narayan, the three foremost Indian writers of fiction in

Exploitation of Teenagers as Reflected in Mulk Raj Anand’s Untouchable and Coolie Our Indian society is far better than the rest of the universe from the point of view of culture as well as conventions and ways of living but on the other side, if we glance into our society, it has many social and political and economical evils such as bride burning, dowry system and dowry death, corruption in educational system, problem of illiteracy in India, domestic violence, communalism, injustice

interpretation of the total disregard Woolf has for transnational feminists. Even going far as using Jane Marcus to mock A Room of One’s Own “failure to adequately give voice to the black woman” (Hickman 60). Including some material from Coolies by Mulk Raj Anand. Hickman changes tactics with the explanation that it is possible for transnational feminists rights can be heard in fiction. Then contradicting herself, she states that there is no real representation of transnational women in a text. Gayatri

Though Raja Rammohan Roy wasn’t a litterateur in a purist sense and surprisingly Gurudev (Rabindranath) chooses to dwell more on psychology of individual or family dynamics and it was natural for Sri Aurbindo to dwell on spirituality, it was Mulk Raj Anand who with his novels like Untouchable, Coolie, Two Leaves and a Bud, the Village

social construct they have been confined in since birth. Throughout the novel, English words are written how they would send phonetically and how the low-caste members use them. For example, Bakha and his friends use the word “fashun” (Anand 4) and the word “gentremen” (Anand 26) in the everyday vocabulary. They do this to blend in more with the British colonizers. It actually shows the affects of colonization in India. There were not many strong efforts of assimilation, yet influence from the British

labours may have been added" (Sharma, Nehru.qtd 1998: 249-25). 4. Educational Position of Indian Have-nots: Almost all the have-nots depicted by Anand are either educationally

according to their benefits to keep up with their socio-cultural, economic and political privileges. A fine example of twisting the rules according to one’s own needs can be seen from works like “Deliverance” by Premchand and “Untouchable” by Mulk Raj Anand. In Deliverance, the priest makes the poor soul work in his courtyard all day while he himself was taking rest. Here the priest does not have a problem if a dalit is

and subalternity as elements in postcolonial theory. She argues that class and caste barriers continue to exist with only limited infractions between the two Indias presented in the works. The study titled “Major Themes in Aravind Adiga’s The White Tiger” (2010) by Sarika Dubey and Kishwar Jahan Begum offers a refreshing Dalit perspective on the novel. While they appreciate Adiga’s attempts in lifting the veil on the seldom-publicised truths of life in modern India, they shun the protagonist’s

first Chief Minister and his party followers created many controversies. The novel is about politics. Through its various agencies, this politics exercises decisive influence over the lives of the people of Ayemenem. Unlike other writers such as Mulk Raj Anand, Arundhati Roy presents politics as a very complex force. It is operative at different levels. This politics begins with home. This is manipulated by different people for different ends. The novel portrays the forces of power working in alliance

Untouchables and African Americans There are various similarities and differences between the treatment of the untouchables in the caste system in Hinduism and the treatment of African Americans in Christianity during segregation and slavery in American. An important fact to remember while reading is that in the past these two countries did not have any separation of religion and state. Thus, there were multiple laws that were made based on religious belief. Most of the religious based laws are