LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 16:6 June 2016
ISSN 1930-2940

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Poverty and Exploitation Aided by
the Social and Political Structures
With Special Reference to MulkRaj Anand’s Coolie

M. Sriprabha


Abstract

Coolie is a novel by Mulk Raj Anand, first published in 1936.[1] The novel reinforced Anand's position as one of India's leading English authors.[2]The book is highly critical of British rule in India and India's caste system.[3] The plot revolves around a 14-year-old boy, Munoo, and his plight due to poverty and exploitation aided by the social and political structures in place. Mulk Raj Anand was one of the triumvirates who inaugurated the new section of writers of fiction along with R.K. Narayan and Raja Rao. Anand is a novelist of urgent social concerns and preoccupations, and the social impulse is at the heart of his writings. He is considered the Messiah of the downtrodden, the unwanted and the unloved. Even in a random reading of Anand’s novels, the reader becomes immediately aware of such issues as the tyranny of the caste system, its injustice, and its social, moral and economic consequences, class conflicts, exploitation of various kinds of the poor by the rich, quest for identity, search for freedom, etc.Under colonial rule, a number of social and economic changes took place and as a result a feudal society was gradually transformed into a capitalistic one. The class system in India has turned out to be a new kind of caste system. It is built on the cash nexus on which it thrives. It has created a society much more complicated and devious, and in some respects more rigid than the one created by caste. Therefore it has become a very powerful divisive force, far more damaging to social cohesion than caste, as it has tended to segregate people into the rich and the poor, the haves and the have-nots.

Keywords: Have-nots, Downtrodden, Conflicts, Exploitation, Segregate

Mulk Raj Anand

Mulk Raj Anand is considered to be a doyen of Anglo-Indian literature. With him India has received an unceasing champion of the cause of poor and lowly whose writings arrest the critical attention of the learned people towards the inhumane, hatred and unjustified conditions of downtrodden and deprived of Indian society. His humanitarian approach and altruistic attitude have always impelled him to use his mind and art for the sake of social welfare. With his literary power and perspectives he has tried his best to spring up the healthy human values and radical social transformation in our human society in which the haves and have nots both can enjoy happily the bliss of human life on the same footings and fraternity peace, love and justice.

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M. Sriprabha
Assistant Professor
Department of English
SVS College of Engineering
Coimbatore-642109
Tamilnadu
India
sriprabhaenglish@gmail.com
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