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TREATMENT OF SOCIAL ISSUES IN MULK RAJ ANAND’S ‘UNTOUCHABLE’
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Author(s):
DR .MAHASHWETA
Vol - 8, Issue- 3 ,
Page(s) : 21 - 25
(2017 )
DOI : https://doi.org/10.32804/IRJMSH
Abstract
Mulk Raj Anand the eldest of the three great Indian novelists, is regarded as the father of Indo-English literature, the other two being Raja Rao and R.K.Narayan. He was born on December 12, 1905 at Peshawar. He was the greatest exponent of Indian writing in English, whose literary out-put was infused with a political commitment that conveyed the lives of India’s poor in a realistic and sympathetic manner. He writes realistically in his novels all about the miserable lives of the poor. Anand being a novelist of the common man, has profoundly dealt with the villages, with the extreme poverty,
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