Mulk Raji Short Story

Anands sensibly succeded to present the story of a child who should bloom like a flower and contribute towards the fate of country but is crushed by social active suppressing forces to the extent that he has to die. He receives all sort of contempt from Daya Ram, Mr. and Mrs. Nathoo Ram, Ganpat, Chimta Sahib, and Mrs. Mainwaring. Abuses, kicks and slaps are showered on him, he receives all of them daily as a part of his life. A child who deserves care and love is destined to receive only agony and pain. He is helpless and does not have any control of his fate and becomes vagabond. Munoo is not only the one he actually represent the class which is economically weakened and is forced to live like slaves by other economically rich section of society. There are many who have contributed in the down-fall of Munoo, money lenders made his father die of shock, his uncle and auntie forced him to work in such a tender age, capitalists exploited him in textile factory and above all the lady who exploits Munoo sexually and because of all he faces he dies, ending this agonized saga of life. His extreme suffering ends with his life.

Mulk Raj Anand has successfully brought the need of restoration of

They behave like catalyst in the already contaminated Indian society. Anand has to some extent presented English characters as travesties. Anand’s character in Coolie has been based on one of his childhood playmates, who use to work in a g in a pickle factory and who faced all sort of humiliation and stoicism from English masters. Indian down-trodden class is represented by Munoo, as a child of that society which does not have anything to give but only tyrannies of social caste system. He is not only a child labourer but also a victim of exploitative capitalist system and