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tsandhu 's review for:
Untouchable
by Mulk Raj Anand, E.M. Forster
In the introduction to the Penguin Edition Ramachandra Guha says that, in a way, this book is both "Gandhite and Ambedkarite". Gandhite? Yes. But I really can't see the latter designation.
The book isn't *that* bad, and the story of Bakha is told with sympathy (even if I did find it occasionally condescending) and rage. But the way Anand seems to try and neatly resolve the story with a mixture of faith in Gandhi's paternalistic reformism on caste, and a belief in technology's ability to do away with untouchability, really irked me.
The book isn't *that* bad, and the story of Bakha is told with sympathy (even if I did find it occasionally condescending) and rage. But the way Anand seems to try and neatly resolve the story with a mixture of faith in Gandhi's paternalistic reformism on caste, and a belief in technology's ability to do away with untouchability, really irked me.