Published: 11 February 2014
ISBN: 9780141393605
Imprint: Penguin Classics
Format: Paperback
Pages: 160
RRP: $19.99

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Untouchable

Mulk Raj Anand

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The extraordinarily powerful story of an Untouchable in India's caste system, with a new introduction by Ramachandra Guha, author of Gandhi Before India

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.

Published: 11 February 2014
ISBN: 9780141393605
Imprint: Penguin Classics
Format: Paperback
Pages: 160
RRP: $19.99

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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