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About Mulk Raj Anand

Mulk Raj Anand, (born December 12, 1905, Peshawar, India [now in Pakistan]—died September 28, 2004, Pune), prominent Indian author of novels, short stories, and critical essays in English who is known for his realistic and sympathetic portrayal of the poor in India. He is considered a founder of the English-language Indian novel.

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Books of Mulk Raj Anand

Coolie

Coolie

Coolie is the second great political novel, published in 1936. It narrates the adventures of Munoo, an orphan hill-boy who is hardly fourteen years of age living with his uncle Daya Ram and aunt Gujri, and content in the idyllic surroundings of his

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57 Articles
Coolie

Coolie

Coolie is the second great political novel, published in 1936. It narrates the adventures of Munoo, an orphan hill-boy who is hardly fourteen years of age living with his uncle Daya Ram and aunt Gujri, and content in the idyllic surroundings of his

28 Readers
57 Articles
Untouchable

Untouchable

Untouchable is a 1935 novel by Mulk Raj Anand. The book follows the story of Bakha, an "untouchable" who is forced to live a life of servitude to his caste. The book's central theme is marginalization. The book depicts one day in the life of Bakha,

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4 Articles
Untouchable

Untouchable

Untouchable is a 1935 novel by Mulk Raj Anand. The book follows the story of Bakha, an "untouchable" who is forced to live a life of servitude to his caste. The book's central theme is marginalization. The book depicts one day in the life of Bakha,

4 Readers
4 Articles

Articles of Mulk Raj Anand

Chapter 57

1 December 2023
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The Sahibs and the Rajahs. 'What is the meaning of push- : ing a woman about here and there so stiflly?" 'It is all a kind of graceful love game,' said Mohan, but it has now become mere play and the l

Chapter 56

1 December 2023
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'Oh, he has gone, then,' he said. 'He is a very strange fellow. I can't make him out. If he has been to Vilayat and is such a learned man, why does he drive rickshaws and live among us?" He comes from

Chapter 55

1 December 2023
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The crisp mountain air seemed like delicious cold water to Munoo's warm body as he jogged lightly along with the other coolics, and the moist young sap in the trees smelt good. As the Major Sahib want

Chapter 54

1 December 2023
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Mrs. Mainwaring came back from dinner and rubbed  eau-de-Cologne on his face and pressed his head. She even massaged his body. She was very kind to him. When Munoo had sweated out his fever and recove

Chapter 53

1 December 2023
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The Rev. J. Fordyce, a Chaplain of St. Mark's Church, was much troubled by the uncomfortable thoughts of death and dignity which arose in the minds of his congregation in the Victorian age. And, being

Chapter 52

1 December 2023
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Munoo found that as the Memsahib's servant he had to fit into a new state of existence. His exact duties were not defined. He was just to remain at his mistress' beck and call, to do anything and ever

Chapter 51

1 December 2023
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She exerted her female charms on the Education Minister of the Zalimpar state and got a job teaching in a children's school. To keep her job she had to please other men. And, being a pretty woman and

Chapter 50

1 December 2023
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The boy felt drawn towards the door of the house. He took advantage of the absence of the volunteers to go up and peer in. He could only see a long, polished flight of stairs, ascending up into the ro

Chapter 49

1 December 2023
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Service League lifted him and bore him to a shelter in the verandah of a school, a hundred yards away. Munoo had deliberately closed his eyes in order not to appear undeserving of help. Yet he was awa

Chapter 48

1 December 2023
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The moonless sky was silent as Munoo entered the town, but the earth, the earth of Bombay, congested by narrow gullies and thoroughfares, rugged houses and temples, minarets and mausoleums and tall of