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Untouchable
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Untouchable

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

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.

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Format
Paperback
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Country
United Kingdom
Date
2 January 2014
Pages
160
ISBN
9780141393605

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

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.

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Format
Paperback
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Country
United Kingdom
Date
2 January 2014
Pages
160
ISBN
9780141393605