Bakha, the Representative of the First Modern Generation of India: A Study of M. R. Anand’s Untouchable

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Sujoy Barman

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M. R. Anand is a socio-marxist Indian fiction writer and his fictions deal with the core pictures of the Indian society of the last phase of the British colonialism in India. Untouchable and Coolie are his masterpieces and they are known for the delineation of the cruelty of caste system in the Hindu society, and with the economical suppression of 1930s and 1940s. This entitled paper, based on Bakha, the hero of the Untouchable, is an attempt to the trends of modernism in Indian society and identifies Bakha and his generation as the first modern generation in India. It shows how Bakha becomes modern or identifies the situations that force Bakha to be a modern man.

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Sujoy Barman. “Bakha, the Representative of the First Modern Generation of India: A Study of M. R. Anand’s Untouchable”. The Creative Launcher, vol. 2, no. 5, Dec. 2017, pp. 441-6, https://www.thecreativelauncher.com/index.php/tcl/article/view/752.
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Anand. M. R. Untouchable. New Delhi: Penguin Books India, 2001.