Social Injustice and inequalities in Untouchable and Coolie

<p>Mulk Raj Anand is regarded as the scintillating star<br>in the firmament of Indo Anglian Literature. He was an<br>Indian English novelist who approached Novels with<br>missionary zeal to portray the pains and sufferings of the<br>down- trodden at the hands of the native rich people and<br>Colonial rulers. "Untouchable" and "Coolie" are major<br>novels of Mulk Raj Anand which chronicled the social<br>maladies in India and he felt that they would be eradicated by<br>following the footsteps of great leaders like M. K. Gandhiji.<br>Mulk Raj Anand always believed that literature should be an<br>interpretation/explanation of the truth of people's lives. It<br>should be written through felt experiences of human beings<br>and not through books. He belongs to the Category of few<br>prolific Indian Writers in English whose novels and stories<br>are highly praised all over the world. As a humanist, Anand<br>always hates superstitions, bigotry caste, class - capitalism,<br>exploitation, overpopulation, tyranny, colonialism, fascism,<br>war, and genocide. He associated himself with the sociopolitical problems, pains, and sufferings of masses in the<br>typical Indian Scenario. In a real sense, Mulk Raj Anand was<br>one of the major pioneer novelists of this period along with<br>R.K. Narayan and Raja Rao. His personal experiences and<br>the reforms of India's political, social, and cultural<br>institutions have been the major elements in his writings. The<br>novels 'Untouchable' and 'Coolie' are their best examples.<br>The Clash between the establishment and the outcaste and<br>poor becomes the major theme of Mulk Raj Anand's fiction.<br>As a down-to-earth fiction writer, his experience is deeply<br>rooted in the social conditions of his time. Through his novels,<br>Mulk Raj Anand presents a society charged with the evils of<br>untouchability, communal disharmony, caste<br>compartmentalisations, and appalling economic differences.<br>Having progressive learnings, Mulk Raj Anand is a<br>committed writer. His sympathies lie with the Untouchables,<br>the outcaste, and the starving multitude.</p>