untouchable

untouchable

1935 • 240 pages

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The modern classic of the re-creation of one day in the life of the sweeper and latrine cleaner Bakha, an untouchable. Anand pours a vitality and richness of detail and conveys with precision, urgency and barely disguised fury what it might have been like to be one of India's untouchables. * A Penguin Twentieth Century Classic. * With a foreword by E.M. Forster.

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Boring. Not relevant, in present day India.

April 4, 2019

The life of an untouchable in pre Independence India laid bare.

September 3, 2018