Mulk Raj Anand’s extraordinarily powerful story of an Untouchable in India’s caste system, with a new introduction by Ramachandra Guha, author of Gandhi<\/p>\n
Bakha is a proud and attractive young man, yet none the less he is an Untouchable – an outcast in India’s caste system. It is a system that is even now only slowly changing and was then as cruel and debilitating as that of apartheid. Into this vivid re-creation of one day in the life of Bakha, sweeper, and toilet-cleaner, Anand pours a vitality, fire, and richness of detail that earn his place as one of the twentieth century’s most important Indian writers.<\/p>\n
‘One of the most eloquent and imaginative works to deal with this difficult and emotive subject’ Martin Seymour-Smith<\/p>\n
‘It recalled to me very vividly the occasions I have walked ‘the wrong way’ in an Indian city, and it is a way down which no novelist has yet taken me’ E. M. Forster<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Author: Mulk Raj Anand<\/p>\n
Product details<\/strong>
\nFormat Paperback | 160 pages
\nPublication date 24 Jun 2014
\nPublisher Penguin Books Ltd<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":1225,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}}},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[39],"product_tag":[52,131,49],"class_list":{"0":"post-1224","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-fiction","7":"product_tag-fiction","8":"product_tag-other-texts","9":"product_tag-upper-secondary","10":"desktop-align-left","11":"tablet-align-left","12":"mobile-align-left","14":"first","15":"onbackorder","16":"taxable","17":"shipping-taxable","18":"purchasable","19":"product-type-simple"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pma.com.sg\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/1224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pma.com.sg\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pma.com.sg\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pma.com.sg\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1224"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pma.com.sg\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/1224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1226,"href":"https:\/\/pma.com.sg\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/1224\/revisions\/1226"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pma.com.sg\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pma.com.sg\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pma.com.sg\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=1224"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pma.com.sg\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=1224"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pma.com.sg\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=1224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}