Reflection Of Indian Society In Mulkraj Anand's Coolie and Untouchable

The novel COOLIE and UNTOUCHABLE covers the span from 1930 to 1940 when poverty, slavery and the inhuman exploitation of the masses were at the peak. The present study examines Munoos life has consisted so many pathetic events, experiences and environments which represents a typical Indian orphan. The orphan boy moves hill to village, village to town, town to city, city to mountain and finally mountain to death. He is portrayed as a servant in a house, factory worker, a rickshaw driver and a coolie. It was Gandhi who had waged a war against the forces behind these evils. The novel describes a single day in the life of the protagonist Bakha, a scavenger boy. The entire action takes place within a period of less than twenty four hours. Though the scene of the novel belongs to a small, interior town of the Punjab, the happenings are pan Indian in character. Bulandshehar, a small town with an outcaste colony on the outskirts represents a normal Indian town found anywhere in India. The novel depicts the dominant high caste and submissive low caste people in India.