{"lc_classifications": ["PR9499.3A5 U5 1970"], "key": "/works/OL354692W", "title": "Untouchable [by] Mulk Raj Anand", "first_publish_date": "1970", "authors": [{"type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}, "author": {"key": "/authors/OL8160A"}}, {"type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}, "author": {"key": "/authors/OL3647288A"}}, {"type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}, "author": {"key": "/authors/OL4802070A"}}, {"type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}, "author": {"key": "/authors/OL4802065A"}}], "type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "first_sentence": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "THE outcastes' colony was a group of mud-wallet houses that clustered together in two rows, under the shadow both of the town and the cantonment, but outside their boundaries and separate from them."}, "excerpts": [{"excerpt": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "THE outcastes' colony was a group of mud-wallet houses that clustered together in two rows, under the shadow both of the town and the cantonment, but outside their boundaries and separate from them."}, "page": "First sentence"}, {"excerpt": "THE outcastes' colony was a group of mud-wallet houses that clustered together in two rows, under the shadow both of the town and the cantonment, but outside their boundaries and separate from them."}], "covers": [97377, 7444737, 8996381], "subject_places": ["India"], "subjects": ["Dalits", "Fiction", "Social life and customs", "Untouchables", "Fiction, general", "India, fiction", "Caste", "Social conditions", "Fiction (fictional works by one author)", "Caste--india--fiction", "Pr9499.3.a5", "823.912"], "description": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "With precision, vitality, and a fury that earned him praise as India's Charles Dickens, Mulk Raj Anand recreates in\" Untouchable\" what it was like to live on the fringes of society in pre-independence India. Bakha, an attractive, proud, and strong young man, is also an Untouchable, the lowest of the low in India's caste system. A sweeper and a toilet-cleaner, he must warn others on the street of his status so that he will not pollute them with his presence. In this urgent 1935 re-creation of one day in the life of an outcast, a violent encounter leads Bakha to question his fate--and to find an answer in the unlikeliest of places."}, "latest_revision": 7, "revision": 7, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2009-10-27T08:26:59.823312"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2025-10-16T09:41:59.697929"}}