The Social Novels Of Coolie By Mulk Raj Anand

Mulk Raj Anand is a socially committed Indian novelist and he started revolution through his novel. He became the messiah of poor section of traditional Indian society. He has produced a good deal of literature. He has written more than a dozen novels and about seventy short stories and a host of essays and articles on a number of subjects. His novels fall into two categories namely social and autobiographical novels. Coolie is a social novel. He focused his attention on the sufferings, misery and wretchedness of the poor as a result of the exploitation of the downtrodden class of the Indian society. He was written this novel before independent of India and at that time Religious hypocrisy, feudal system , poverty, hunger and exploitation

Why didn’t you inform me before you moved out of those huts?

(Chimta Sahib to the coolies)

These are the examples of animal abuses. It is noticed that these animals have bad notation in Indian culture. The abuses are not only in the name of animals but they are also in the name of illegitimate sexual relations. By using this offensive statement they try to humiliate the opposite person and proof himself as superior.The abusive speech acts showing the illicit relations are in plenty in this novel.

In the Indian context, people make use of two languages simultaneously which is known as bilingualism for example- “When people of widely different cultural and linguistic background live together in a geographic region over a considerable length of time, sharing common, socio-economic and political activities of the communitiystable bi- or multi-lingual societies are

Even at the tender age of fourteen, he is not provided with the basic necessities. They are certain character of the novel like Daya Ram, Mr. and Mrs. Nathoo Ram, Ganpat, Chimta Sahib, and Mrs. Mainwaring . They have only used Munoo. They slapped him, kicked him, and abused him. No one has given any support to this young boy. The main motivation for writing this novel is that the writer asking for little support, he is just asking for little care and equality. Even there is an instance when he was being supported from a pickle factory owner since he was coolie in his past. He was also cheated by his worker, from this instance writer try to say that if you are helping someone at least don’t cheat that fellow. Every time writer considered the problem of weaker section and poor because they were being neglected from the