The Role Of Censorship In Untouchable And Coolie

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The main theme of the novel is the suppression of a deprived teenager by the diverse forces of the Indian society, which followed a rigid system of class and believed in oppressing the humiliating and poor boy having no fault. Exploitation in this were of two types of economic and social. Indian community as such was involved in religious and domestic exploitation while colonial powers were responsible for the industrial exploitation and feudal capitalistic suppression. P.K. Rajan has rightly observed in his comparative study of Untouchable and Coolie says that the main focus of both the novels is enticed with the same theme. He has noticed, It is an individual’s quest for freedom in a social system of ruthless exploitation... The society of coolie is one in which chief form of exploitation is capitalist though the feudal exploitation still emains, Munoo, in his quest for freedom, is squeezed dry by the machinery of capitalist exploitation until he meets his tragic end. (Rajan 15) Munoo’s chart of exploitation keep increasing all the time, it starts with feudal exploitation., then this saga moves forward with domestic exploitation and faces the craving of getting rich by his uncle and aunt. This story of miseries continues as he faces industrial exploitation. Indistrial exploitation made his condition worse as he has to work eleven hours a day on skimpy wages. Again along with other workers he faces colonial exploitation and the capitalistic in the cotton mill. He also faces religious exploitation when gets trapped in communal riot in the end of his …show more content…

The communal riot were actually another form of capitalist exploitation, as the employers engineer tried to ignite riots to suppress the workers’ strike. It was a humanistic treachery also as they used faith of the workers

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