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The modern classic of the re-creation of one day in the life of the sweeper and latrine cleaner Bakha, an untouchable. Anand pours a vitality and richness of detail and conveys with precision, urgency and barely disguised fury what it might have been like to be one of India's untouchables. * A Penguin Twentieth Century Classic. * With a foreword by E.M. Forster.

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Untouchable, Mulk Raj Anand

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2001
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English
Publisher
Penguin
Released
2001
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Paperback
Pages
160
ISBN10
0143027808
ISBN13
9780143027805
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The modern classic of the re-creation of one day in the life of the sweeper and latrine cleaner Bakha, an untouchable. Anand pours a vitality and richness of detail and conveys with precision, urgency and barely disguised fury what it might have been like to be one of India's untouchables. * A Penguin Twentieth Century Classic. * With a foreword by E.M. Forster.