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  • Published: 3 April 2014
  • ISBN: 9780141393612
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 160
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Untouchable




The extraordinarily powerful story of an Untouchable in India's caste system, with a new introduction by Ramachandra Guha, author of Gandhi

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.

  • Published: 3 April 2014
  • ISBN: 9780141393612
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 160
Categories:

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