LANGUAGE IN INDIA

Strength for Today and Bright Hope for Tomorrow

Volume 11 : 10 October 2011
ISSN 1930-2940

Managing Editor: M. S. Thirumalai, Ph.D.
Editors: B. Mallikarjun, Ph.D.
         Sam Mohanlal, Ph.D.
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         L. Ramamoorthy, Ph.D.

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A Clarion Call for Socio-economic and Emotional Consciousness in Mulk Raj Anand’s Untouchable

R. Baskaran, M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D. Scholar

Mulk Raj Anand

Discussing the Dreadful Evil Called Untouchability

A close study of the novelist M.R.Anand, whose very name is the synonym of commitment, shows that he juxtaposes the social evils against the mindsets of individuals and some privileged sections of the society. In Untouchable, Anand mainly discusses the dreadful evil called untouchability that has been, like a scourge afflicting and agonizing a considerable section of Indian community for centuries in pre-independent and pre-partition India.

Bakha, a Representative

The story is based on a singled day in the life of Bakha, an 18 year old Bhangi, who is a toilet cleaner and a sweeper boy. The novel presents the life-like portrayal of the most downtrodden, despised and oppressed section of Indian society. As Srinivasa Iyengar points: “The novel presents the picture of a place of a society, and of certain persons, nor easily to be forgotten picture that is also an indictment of the evils of a decadent and perverted orthodoxy”.

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R. Baskaran, M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D. Scholar
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Periyar Government Arts College
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Tamil Nadu
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