Coolie portrays the picaresque adventures of Munoo, a young boy forced to leave his hill village to fend for himself and discover the world. His journey takes him far from home to towns and cities, to Bomboy and Simla, sweating as servant, factory-worker and rickshaw driver. It is a fight for survival that illuminates, with raw immediacy, the grim fate of the masses in pre-Partition India. Together with Untouchable, Coolie places Mulk Raj Anand among the twentieth century's finest Indian novelists writing in English.
- ISBN10 0140186808
- ISBN13 9780140186802
- Publish Date 24 June 1993 (first published 3 February 1972)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country IN
- Publisher Penguin Random House India
- Imprint Penguin Modern Classics
- Format Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
- Pages 288
- Language English