Untouchable
Mulkaraj Anad is the
traditional Indians coppersmith’s son who is clever and uses his brain and talent.
He was born in Peshawar in 1905 got education at Lahore, London and Cambridge
and took doctorate in philosophy afterwards he dedicated his life two his
writing one of early books was “carries and other Indian dishes “and another
books were ‘The Hindu view Of Art” and “The Golden Breath”.
Untouchable is most
compact and artificially satisfying. It is the shortest of the novel and the
most revealing and rewarding of the lot for untouchable covers the events of a single
day life of the low cast boy Bakha in the town of Bulashah.The 18 year old boy
is one of the sons of Lakha – the Jmadar of the sweeper of the town. Bakha is a
child of the 20 century and the impact of new influences causes stirrings
within him. He wants to look the white forever but as the dawn, his work of
latrine cleaning also begins.Anands describes bakha’s morning rounds of duties
with a painstaking. Bakha cleans three
row of latrine single handed. His sister sohini also works for high class people.
She gets water from the wall which was prohibited for the untouchable so to
cure the water Kalinath priest decided to draw for the wall for the assembled
out casts. The mean while he sees sohini and feels attracted to her youthfulness.
Thus story gets climax point, issues are aroused .Bakha become furious and
Lakha tries to peruse him.
In the afternoon
Bakha attends the marriage function of his friends Ramacharan sisters.Ramcharan
is washer man son .Chota is the leather worker son and Bakha forgets the law
cast difference and creates problems. Bakha’s starts playing with high class
boy. They play hockey sticks.Bakah makes goal and makes a little boy injured
.Now reality comes out that he is a Harijan.
The problem of cast,
ignorance and superstition, class difference, class division is presented in
the story by Anand.
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