Mulk Raj Anand

Biographical Materials

• Brief Biographical Sketch

Works

• Untouchable, 1940 [Discussion of novel]

Literary Relations

• The Influence of Gandhi
• Compared to Yvonne Vera
• Not attracted by Christian idea of Heaven: Compared to Vera
• Compare Untouchability to Benjamin Disraeli's Charge that Victorian Workers formed a Separate Nation.
• Matthew Arnold

Themes

Social and Political Contexts

• British Empire
• British Army in India

Religion and Philosophy

• Hinduism
• The Hindu Notion of Untouchability
• Christian Missionaries