Mulk Raj Anand’s half a dozen novels deal with the social issues in pre-independent India. Unlike the other Indian social novelists Saratchandra or Premchand, Anand dealt with the lowest strata of Indian society – the untouchables, coolies, sweepers etc. Mulk Raj Anand’s special quality is that he had the first hand experience of all that he wrote. Anand’s first three novelsUntouchable (1935), Coolie (1936) and Two Leaves and a Bud (1937) deal with the Indian social issues in pre-independent India. Anand turns to the lot of class of the under-privileged, the down-trodden and the outcasts.
Research Scholar, P.G. Department of English and Research Centre, Magadh University, Bodh-Gaya
