TY - BOOK AU - Anand, Mulk Raj TI - Untouchable SN - 9780141393605 U1 - 823.91 PY - 2014/// CY - UK PB - Penguin Classics KW - Literary, Classics N2 - Bakha is a proud and attractive young man, yet none the less he is an Untouchable - an outcast in India's caste system. It is a system that is even now only slowly changing and was then as cruel and debilitating as that of apartheid. Into this vivid re-creation of one day in the life of Bakha, sweeper and toilet-cleaner, Anand pours a vitality, fire and richness of detail that earn his place as one of the twentieth century's most important Indian writers ER -