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contribution of mulk raj anand in IWE

1. PAPER-4 Name: Sagar B. Vaghela Roll No: 53 Enrollment No: 2069108420180052 Paper No: 4 Indian English Literature Topic: Contribution of Mulk Raj Anand in English Writing in English Batch:2017-19 Email Id: [email protected] Submitted To: S.B.Gardi Department of English MKBU

2. About mulk raj anand ● Mulk Raj Anand was the pioneer of the Indian English Literature ● Born : 12 December 1905 Peshawar, British India ● Died : 28 September 2004 (aged 98)Pune, India ●Occupation : Writer ●Period : 20th century

3. Continue ... ■ Mulk Raj Anand is notable for power cast in traditional Indian Society. ■Anand is admired for his novel and short stories,Which have acquired the status of being classic works of modern Indian English literature.

4. Continue ... ☆Mulk Raj Anand also notable for being among the first writer to incorporate P u njabi and Hindustani idioms into English and was a recipient of the civilian honour of the Padma Bhushan. ☆He has written more than a dozen Novels and about Seventy short srories and a host of essays and articles on a number of subject.

5. Mulk raj anand’s novels □ Untochable-1935 □ Coolie-1936

6. Continue... ■ Two leaves and a bud-1937 ■ The sward and the Sickle-1942

7. Career He became a writer in English language, as English language publishers were more open to publish the kind of themes he wrote on. His writing career began in England where he used to publish short reviews in T. S. Eliot’s magazine, ‘Criterion’. During the 1930s and 1940s he was very active in politics and spoke regularly at the meetings of India League which was founded by Krishna Menon .

8. Continue… Over this period he became acquainted with the likes of intellectuals, such as, Bertrand Russell and Michael Foot, and authors like Henry Miller and George Orwell. He was deeply influenced by M.K. Gandhi. His first novel, “Untouchable’ was published by the British firm, Wishart in 1935. The story was about a day in the life of Bakha , a boy who has to become a toilet cleaner just because he belongs to the untouchable caste. The novel was seen as a poignant reminder of the atrocities of the caste system in India.

9. Major Works His best known work was the novel ‘Untouchable’ which tells of the story of a boy, Bakha , who is destined to become a toilet cleaner just because of his caste. The plot revolves around what happens when he meet an upper caste man and encounters atrocities.

10. Awards and achievements He was honored with the Padma Bhushan , India’s third highest civilian award in 1967 for his vast contributions towards the field of Literature & Education. He won the Sahitya Academy Award for his novel ‘The Morning Face’ (1968).

11. Personal life and legacy He met actress Kathleen van Gelder in London and the couple married in 1938. Their union produced a daughter. The marriage however unraveled and the couple divorced in 1948. In 1950, he married Shirin Vajibdar , a classical dancer He died in 2004 at the age of 98.

12. Literary style □ Anand who was associated with communism, used his novels to make brode attacks on various elements of India's social structure and on British rule in India. □ T hey are considered important for their social statement.

13. Mulkraj anand’s qUotes