Social Issues In Mulk Raj Anand

What affected Mulk Raj Anand most was the poverty and the survival methods and efforts of those classes of people in India. His writings are based on six types of social issues that will be discussed in the later part of the chapter. The social issues that he wrote candidly about and described to a point of embarrassment for the Indian society and the British colonizers are the social issues of inhuman treatment, oppression, economic exploitation, class conflict, social injustice and realism and exploitation of teenagers. The setting of the six novels that are to be studied in the research study are all set in pre-independent India. The social issues that the novels of Anand described were powerful because he had a first -hand experience from

Taking the job of a sweeper the man was an untouchable because he was a sweeper, but if the mechanized commodes with the cistern was implemented in India all one would have to do is flush the commode there would be no job for a sweeper and there would be no lower sweeper caste in the caste system. The author however does not aggressively advocate the remedies but does imply in his novel that the changes were coming and that society would see a shift in the unequal distribution of social classes, norms and wealth. In the end Anand suggests three remedies for the problems of cleaning toilets. One is that the modern flushes would make life easier for people like Bakha, second, is to become a Christian which a missionary tries to convince him about because there is no caste system in Christianity and he would not be treated in an inhuman manner and third is that if Gandhiji’s reform movement successes then class conflict will be considered to be one of the evils of the society not to be