Untouchable /
by Mulk Raj Anand
- Gurgaon : Penguin - Random House, 2001.
- viii, 148 pages ; 20 cm
- Penguin twentieth-century classics. .
Bakha is a young man, proud and even attractive, yet none the less he is an outcast in India's caste system: an Untouchable. This novel describes a day in the life of Bakha, sweeper and toilet-cleaner, as he searches for a meaning to the tragic existence he has been born into - and comes to an unexpected conclusion.