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Mulk Raj Anand


Born
in Peshawar, British India
December 12, 1905

Died
September 28, 2004

Genre
Literature & Fiction


Mulk Raj Anand was an Indian writer in English, notable for his depiction of the lives of the poorer castes in traditional Indian society. One of the pioneers of Indo-Anglian fiction, he, together with R.K. Narayan, Ahmed Ali and Raja Rao, was one of the first India-based writers in English to gain an international readership. Anand is admired for his novels and short stories, which have acquired the status of being classic works of modern Indian English literature, noted for their perceptive insight into the lives of the oppressed and their analyses of impoverishment, exploitation and misfortune. He is also notable for being among the first writers to incorporate Punjabi and Hindustani idioms into English. ...more

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Across the Black Waters
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The Lost Child: and Other S...
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Greatest Short Stories
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Private life of an Indian p...
3.45 avg rating — 102 ratings — published 1953 — 12 editions
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Selected Short Stories [Jul...
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Two leaves and a bud
3.63 avg rating — 81 ratings — published 1937 — 10 editions
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Conversations in Bloomsbury
3.49 avg rating — 59 ratings — published 1995 — 8 editions
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UT, Nr.33, Gauri
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“Charat Singh was feeling kind, though he did not relax the grin which symbolized six thousand years of racial and class superiority.”
― Mulk Raj Anand, Untouchable
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“How queer, the Hindus don’t feed their cows although they call the cow “mother”!’ Bakha thought.”
― Mulk Raj Anand, Untouchable
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“Why, why is anyone superior to another? Why are we all sinners?”
― Mulk Raj Anand, Untouchable
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