Untouchable Av Mulk Raj Anand

<p><b>Mulk Raj Anand''s extraordinarily powerful story of an Untouchable in India''s caste system, with a new introduction by Ramachandra Guha, author of <i>Gandhi</i><br></b><br>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.<br><br>''One of the most eloquent and imaginative works to deal with this difficult and emotive subject'' <b>Martin Seymour-Smith</b><br><br>''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'' <b>E. M. Forster</b></p>