“mulk raj anand”

Mulk Raj Anand (1905–2004) had one lament he often voiced to his friends and literary critics—that his short stories were not paid enough attention. This volume brings together some of the best and most memorable stories from Anand's published collections, each of them illustrating a different m... More

Anand's most profound study of human nature. The story of a man's compelling love for a woman, this is at the same time a historical novel of unusual power, showing the demise of the princely states with the birth of a free India. Maharaja Ashok Kumar of Sham Pur asserts complete independence for hi... More

Coolie portrays the picaresque adventures of Munoo, a young boy forced to leave his hill village to fend for himself and discover the world. His journey takes him far from home to towns and cities, to Bombay and Simla, sweating as servant, factory-worker and rickshaw driver. It is a fight for the su... More

Seven Summers, first drafted when Mulk Raj Anand was a student at London University but not published till 1951, recreates the events and feelings of the first seven years of the writer’s life, or what he called his ‘half unconscious and half conscious childhood’. First of the sev... More

In Lajwanti, Mulk Raj Anand focuses on a woman's predicament and struggle to find an identity for herself. Frustrated by a rigid pattern of social relationships, gender bias, religious bigotry and her own petty human foibles, her abject condition serves as a metaphor for sacrifice and servility ... More

Across the Black Waters is widely regarded as outstanding among the earlier novels of Mulk Raj. It has been translated in 11 European languages, with the British Council adapting this war-time novel overlooking the claims of classics like All Quiet on the Western Front, into a play to mark the 80th ... More