Untouchable

Bakha Is A Young Man, Proud And Even Attractive, Yet None The Less He Is An Outcast In India's Caste System: An Untouchable. In Deceptively Simple Prose This Groundbreaking Novel Describes A Day In The Life Of Bakha, Sweeper And Toilet-cleaner, As He Searches For A Meaning To The Tragic Existence He Has Been Born Into - And Comes To An Unexpected Conclusion. Mulk Raj Anand Poured A Vitality, Fire And Richness Of Detail Into His Controversial Work, Which Led Him To Be Acclaimed As His Country's Charles Dickens And One Of The Twentieth Century's Most Important Indian Writers.