Mulk Raj Anand, one of the greatest Indian novelists is also regarded as the father of the Indo English literature. Almost all his novels deal with the theme of social picture and realism. He is known for the depiction of the lives of the underdogs in a very realistic and sympathetic manner and is often branded as a social propagandist. Though other writers prior to Anand had also attempted such themes but the work of Anand includes the suffering of the lowest caste – the ignored people and none of his contemporaries wrote about the life and suffering of such people like 'Bakha' of Untouchable and 'Munoo' of Coolie. In this context K. R. Srinivasa Iyengar has rightly observed about the theme of Anand's novels :
Research Scholar, Dept. of English, Magadh University, Bodh-Gaya.
