Mulk Raj Anand was an Indian novelist and short story writer. He was among the writers who incorporated Punjabi and Hindustani idioms into English. His stories depicted a realistic and sympathetic portrait of the poor in India. He was the first Indian novelist to make an untouchable, the hero of a novel. In this sensitive portrayal of an individual. Mulk Raj Anand displays his penetrating thought and human attitude in understanding the grim realities of one of the aspects of the social life in India. Here the values of human have been presented by Anand in his two novels – Untouchable and Coolie. Untouchable is Anand’s first novel and his most compact and artistically satisfying work. This novel describes the life of 18-years old Bakha and his sister Sohini. Why are they treated like dirt by all human? Just because his profession is to clean latrines. Artistically, it is the most perfect of Anand’s writings. Bakha tackles his odious job with a conscientiousness that invests his movements with beauty, The next novel coolie has a wider canvas and is more diffused in structure Munoo, a young orphan, works at a variety of odd jobs at Daulatpur. Munoo is exploited not because of his caste but because he is poor.
Research Scholar, P.G. Dept. of English, Magadh University, Bodh-Gaya
