Mulk Raj Anand's 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 & 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 & was then as cruel & debilitating as that of apartheid Into this vivid re-creation of one day in the life of Bakha sweeper & toilet-cleaner Anand pours a vitality fire & richness of detail that earn his place as one of the twentieth century's most important Indian writers' One of the most eloquent & imaginative works to deal with this difficult & emotive subject' Martin Seymour-Smith' It recalled to me very vividly the occasions I have walked 'the wrong way' in an Indian city & it is a way down which no novelist has yet taken me' E M Forster