refuses to be bound by fusty convention and orthodoxy. In fact, Anand’s novels convey emotional truths as well as social realities and the beauty of his art of fiction is well realized by way of analysis and interpretation of social problems and of corrupt practices. However social life in India has been entirely revolutionized since then, one cannot say with confidence that casteism is fully wiped off in all the states of India. Untouchable gives a voice to the predicament of the mute humanity in vicious
A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF MULK RAJ ANAND’S ‘UNTOUCHABLE’ AND GIRIRAJ KISHORE’S ‘PARISHISHTA’ FINAL SYNOPSIS Over the long period of time upper caste people give, the lower caste people inhuman treatment. In the sixty years of independence we are not able to establish equality in India. So it is necessary to go to the root cause of this discrimination on the basis of caste. The present study is comparative evaluation to Mulk Raj Anand’s ‘Untouchable’ and Giriraj Kishore’s ‘Parishishta’. The problem
examines the notion of injustice or discrimination and its treatment by the perception of social justice and humanism by adopting a cross cultural perspective with reference to analysis of racial discrimination in Joseph Conrad’s novella, Heart of Darkness and Mulk Raj Anand’s portrayal of caste discrimination in his novel, Untouchable. Prejudice or discrimination on the base of caste or colour has been a universal practice by human race. The discrimination on each basis generates similar repercussions
We are in 21st century but the condition of untouchable in Indian society is still a matter of concern. Form ancient time they are being treated worse than animals by the hand of upper caste society. Although the Government has banned the caste discrimination since 1950 but the plight of untouchables is still a matter of concern. The emergence of so many regional political parties in India has only magnified this problem. They have made the untouchables and other castes occupying the lower hierarchy
Kamala Markandaya is one of the finest and outstanding woman novelists of post independence India ,internationally known as the writer of Nectar in a Sieve. She belongs to both the East and the West . India is the country of her birth and upbringing and England that of her adoption. She lived for some time in a South Indian village and gained the first-hand knowledge of Indian rural life. She was a journalist in India before migrating to London. She married an Englishman and finally settled in England