Bakha is a young man, proud and even attractive, yet none the less he is an outcast in India's caste system: an Untouchable. In deceptively simple prose this groundbreaking novel describes a day in the life of Bakha, sweeper and toilet-cleaner, as he searches for a meaning to the tragic existence he has been born into - and comes to an unexpected conclusion. Mulk Raj Anand poured a vitality, fire and richness of detail into his controversial work, which led him to be acclaimed as his country's Charles Dickens and one of the twentieth century's most important Indian writers.
- ISBN10 0143027808
- ISBN13 9780143027805
- Publish Date 29 August 2001 (first published 1 January 1970)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country IN
- Publisher Penguin Random House India
- Imprint Penguin
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 160
- Language English