Treatment of Injustice and Violence as depicted in Coolie by Mulk Raj Anand

Vidushi Parmar

Vol-5,Issue-2,March - April 2020

Author: Vidushi Parmar

Keywords: Injustice, Violence, Coolie, India, Mulk Raj Anand, Society.

Abstract: The paper deals with the depiction of injustice and violence in society through the protagonist Munoo created by Mulk Raj Anand in his very famous novel Coolie. Mulk Raj Anand was likely the first of the writers to write in English and depict the real troubled lives of the suppressed Indians. The nineteen thirties were a tremulous time for India. India was in the last years of his freedom fight and literary culture was on its high. Novels, Poems, Drama had a higher impact on the masses since it was a means of mass communication. Coolie was such a benchmark at establishing the true nature of the society of the time. Through Munoo Mulk Raj Anand has portrayed the picture of a protagonist who suffered the injustice of the society and died as a barren without any recognition ever.

DOI: 10.22161/ijels.52.2