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English Clothes
Throughout Untouchable, English clothing symbolizes the way Bakha and his friends have internalized their village’s hierarchies of race and class. Sweeper Bakha, his brother Rakha, and his best friends Ram Charan and Chota…
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The Sun
In Mulk Raj Anand’s novel Untouchable, the sun represents the restorative possibilities of the natural world. The village where Bakha and his family live is “polluted” both literally and metaphorically, filled with the bad…
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