Mulk Raj Anand, a socially dedicated author, has delivered a decent arrangement of writing. He has composed in excess of twelve books and around seventy short stories and a large group of expositions and articles on various subjects. His books fall into two classes in particular social and personal books. He concentrated on the sufferings, hopelessness and awfulness of the poor because of the abuse of the discouraged class of the Indian culture. Strict false reverence, medieval framework, East-West experience, the spot of lady in the general public, notions, destitution, yearning and abuse are his regular subjects. Watchwords: Mulk Raj Anand, Mulk Raj, books, humankind

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EAST WEST ENCOUNTER IN MULKRAJ ANAND’S COOLIE K.Selvi 1, S.Aswini selvakumari 2 , C.Esthar Rani 3, R.Udhayanila 4 ASSISTANT PROFESSORS DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH DHANALAKSHMI SRINIVASAN COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCE FOR WOMEN (AUTONOMOUS) PERAMBALUR    ABSTRACT:  Mulk Raj Anand, a socially dedicated author, has delivered a decent arrangement of writing. He has composed in excess of twelve books and around seventy short stories and a large group of expositions and articles on various subjects. His books fall into two classes in particular social and personal books. He concentrated on the sufferings, hopelessness and awfulness of the poor because of the abuse of the discouraged class of the Indian culture. Strict false reverence, medieval framework, East-West experience, the spot of lady in the general public, notions, destitution, yearning and abuse are his regular subjects. Watchwords: Mulk Raj Anand, Mulk Raj, books, humankind. KEYWORDS: Mulkraj Anand Novels, Mulkraj, Coolie, East West Encounter.  Mulk Raj Anand, a general public submitted writer, has delivered a decent arrangement of writing by composing in excess of twelve books and around seventy short stories and a large group of expositions and articles on various subjects. Strict bad faith, primitive framework, East-West experience, the spot of ladies in the general public, strange notions, neediness, yearning and misuse are his normal subjects. Notwithstanding this world of topics projected in his books, Anand laid spotlight on the sufferings, hopelessness and awfulness of the poor therefore of the abuse of the discouraged class of the Indian culture. In all such prominent books like Coolie, Distant, Two Leaves and a Bud, The Sword and the Sickle and The Road, M.R. Anand outlines destitution, craving and abuse as significant subjects. For example, the novel unapproachable covers the range from 1930 to 1940 when neediness, subjection and the brutal misuse of the majority were at the pinnacle. It was Gandhi who had pursued a battle against the powers behind these shades of malice. The tale depicts a solitary day in the life of the hero Bakha, a forager kid.   Bakha begins his day invited by the maltreatments of his dad furthermore, is compelled to clean the restrooms with a brush and a crate. His sister Sohini goes to get water from the position well where she is constrained to trust that a rank Hindu will draw water which is again a daily practice for her life. Savant Kali Nath fills her pitcher with water and request her, with an evil expectation to clean the sanctuary yard. Bakha, on the solicitation of his dad hurries to the town to clean the streets. While strolling through the roads of the town, a position Hindu gets contaminated by his touch to which he attempts to apologize. Joining his delivers lowliness, he stands not too sharp. Individuals assemble around the scene and misuse Bakha. He argues yet nobody has sympathy for him. The polluted man gives a smack all over and leaves the spot. For the first run through in quite a while life, Bakha is made mindful of his status as a distant. He feels impolite and hurries to the patio of the sanctuary declaring his appearance out loud. While wandering external the sanctuary, he inquisitively investigates the sanctuary. A Brahmin sees Bakha on the means and yells at him for contaminating the sanctuary. While moving down the means, he discovers his sister Sohini remaining in the yard scared and astounded. She educates Bakha regarding the cleric's endeavor to attack her while she was cleaning his lavatory. She further advises him that she shouted out of dread and the minister came out yelling that he had been contaminated by a distant girl.   While meandering through the railroad station, he hears the information on Mahatma Gandhi's appearance in the town. He hurries to Golbagh to hear Gandhi's discourse. With seeing Gandhi, he fails to remember all the torments of the entire day. In his long discourse, Gandhi communicates his desire to be reawakened as an unapproachable. He calls them 'Harijan' and the cleaners of Hindu religion. He additionally cautions them against their negative behavior patterns and inquires them to quit tolerating the prepared nourishment for their work. Through the discussion between the two genius and against Gandhi gatherings, Bakha comes to realize that the lone answer for destroy unapproachability in the utilization of machine or the flush framework. In the expressions of Jha, "Anand is the primary Indian author to have portrayed in the novel from the shame of this shrewd which disengages a man from his own general public" (P 59). Not just the hero yet additionally the vast majority of the minor characters in his books have a place with the low station, oppressed society.  Bakha's character is designed according to one of Anand's beloved companions, who was mortified by his own mother for being a sweeper kid yet whom Anand revered as a saint. Anand would always remember that sweeper kid and the affront and mortification that he got by Anand's family. He offered voice to his perspectives against the abuse of a sweeper kid through the personality of Bakha in his absolute first novel Untouchable. The tale closes with three answers for the issue of distance – Christ, Gandhi and the flush framework. The tale, accordingly, portrays distance as a social insidiousness. It is a wonderful component of the books that Gandhiji shows up in individual to talk on the evil of unapproachability. It appreciates gigantic ubiquity as a record of the bad form of Hindu society submitted on the social out-positions. As a pioneer author of India, M.R.Anand is the irate man of writing. He did in Indian fiction what Dickens did in English fiction. K.R.S.Iyengar appropriately says: "As an author, Anand has been as viable nearly as Dickens himself.  Anand's responsibility in his books is found in his reliable exertion to make his fiction a vehicle of his way of thinking of humanism. He came to fiction through way of thinking and it has given it profundity and profound established purposiveness. Humanism is the way of thinking of man. It uncovers man's basic pride and respectability. As per his way to deal with man, man is an inventive wellspring of boundless conceivable outcomes. Anand's books are a declaration of this way of thinking. He is the humanist who uncovers the fundamental nobility of the longshots of Indian culture. Prof. P.P.Mehta says that Dr.  Anand in his books underscores the way that respectability and poise are not the syndication of the rich. Quiet offensive Miltons and Cromwells are normal in the positions of poor people. This humanism is key to Anand's books. The charge of publicity is dismissed by an imaginative inescapability of humanism which peeps out of characters and circumstances which Anand favors by and by. Unapproachable and Coolie show this quality in bounty. Munoo and Bakha are guiltless, noble and adorable disregarding the cognizant embarrassment piled on them. Anand mitigates the parcel of man by offering poise on the people in question. His humanism shows that man will be man, be he a sweeper, a ruler or coolie. Prof. Iyengar honors his humanism. "It is this sublime ability to draw out the basic human component in such an assortment of characters that makes Anand the laureate of humankind and his fiction in total the Comedies accommodating of 20th century India. As a pragmatist author, Anand is liberated from the "East-past Complex". He doesn't expound on the wonders of past or the otherworldly legacy of India as Raja Rao does in The Serpent and the Rope. His theory of humanism instructed him to have confidence in at this very moment. Thus his topics are only contemporary issues of India. As S.Z.H.Abidi has put it, "He has battled with social show, strict deception and strange notion. The subjects of his books are distance abuse, destitution and horror, work issue, craving and strict limited enthusiasm, state of ladies, monetary frailty and so on His books center consideration around the essential conditions in which man is living in current occasions. Books like Untouchable and Coolie are fitting models for this. As per Premila Paul, Bakha fills in as a mirror to the unfortunate remedy of the untouchables. He speaks to each one of those sweepers who are bound to carry on with life more awful than the slaves.  E.M.Forster in his prelude to Untouchable appropriately notices. The slave may change his lord and his obligations and may even turn out to be free, however the sweeper is headed for ever, naturally introduced to a state from which he can't get away and where he isprohibited from social intercourse. Bakha is a misused individual and a revolutionary. He is a substitute of the unbending station framework. Foul play incurred upon him makes him insubordinate. Over the top maltreatment and affront make him consider counter. At such minutes, he feels like a tiger at a sound. Saros Cowsjee in her book So Many Freedoms appropriately remarks that Be that as it may, he is a tiger for a situation, safely detained by the shows his bosses have developed to secure themselves against the rage of those whom they misuse.  Bakha needs to secure yet he who cleans the fifth of individuals gets mindful of the foulness around him. He understands that he is encircled by his own kin who are easygoing, humble and have acknowledged misuse as their destiny. His dad attempts to quiet him somewhere around causing him to understand that such misuse isn't obscure to their position. His sister, Sohini, additionally attempts to mollify him by requesting him to acknowledge it as a section from their fate. His powerlessness to revolt should be seen as a result of the mistreatment of the outcastes for a large number of a long time. His accommodation to the bosses who abuse him is the aftereffect of the metropolitan bondage that he acquires. As abuse is the significant subject of Untouchable, it manages various sorts of misuses, for example, social, monetary, political, strict and sexual abuse. However, social misuse is at the base of any remaining misuses. The tale is, no uncertainty, an internal clash of a person who is trapped in the snare of a well established station framework. P.K.Rajan in his investigations on Mulk Raj Anand says that is the person's journey for opportunity in a social arrangement of savage misuse. Bakha as an distant looks for his opportunity in the medieval society with its verifiable confidence in the faultlessness of station segregation, with its lip service, mercilessness, trickery and barbarism. We see him stand latent and baffled at the hugeness of honor, seeking after a change.   Anand shows his anxiety over the coordinated social indecencies and condemnations in the general public which is the reason for the torments of the outcaste oppressed. This social revile or evil is the genuine foe of the general public. Munoo is Coolie is likewise misused deeply. In spite of the fact that Munoo is the hero, he is a level detached character. He stays restrained and ineffectual till the end. As Riemenscheider brings up, Munoo isn't the normal sort of legend we hope to discover in a novel. In his resistance to society, he is inactive while the general public is dynamic. Munoo doesn't construct, his child own life which in actuality, is worked for him. Munoo represents every one of those coolies who are survivors of industrialization, beaten from column to post. S.A.Khan appropriately says that He is one among the large numbers of coolies tried and defined by my freed powers of class differentiation misuse and dehumanization the narrative of Munoo hushes up basically the tale of each misused individual in India and the example of his life is planned to show the savagery that lies imbedded in the lives of millions of individuals who are sentenced to lead an existence of a ceaseless sage of social plunder. To close, Mulk Raj's Anand will likely stir the misused, stifled, dehumanized classes of the society and he thinks that misusing the low class has been our public sin which we have been submitting for quite a long time together. What is perceived is that Anand is an adroit in featuring the reality indeed, even the untouchables are individuals who should be treated as 'people's no matter what to set up a stable society. References: 1. Anand, Mulk Raj. Coolie. Australia: Penguin Books Ltd, 1972. 2.Anand, Mulk Raj. Coolie. Delhi: Hind Pocket Books, 1972. 3.Abidi, S.Z.H. Mulk Raj Anand’s Coolie: A Critical Study. Bareilly : PBD, 1994. 4.Cowasjee, Saros. Mulk Raj Anand and His Critics. The Banasthali Patrika, 12 Jan 1969. 

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