Mulk Raj Anand; Champion of Voice of Subaltern (Paperback)

Mulk Raj Anand - His Progressive Proletarianis... Mulk Raj Anand is passionately concerned with the villages, with the ferocious poverty and cruelties of caste with orphans, with untouchables and urban labourers. Thus the life and the humiliating conditions, under which lay crushed these low down-trodden victims of the inexorable social, economic and political order that existed in Indian Villages, was the subject Mulk Raj chose for himself. He felt that it was his duty and the mission of his life to focus the attention of his readers, on the innumerable wrongs, injustices and the injuries that were being continuously perpetrated on these young unfortunate underdogs of Indian society. He laid the scene of action of his novels, by and large, in the villages and cities of the Punjab with which he was well familiar. He could easily delineate with realistic details the topography, the style and the language of their talk, the customs, superstitions, religious practices, and their disabilities - social, economic and political from which the people of his novels suffered.