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Discuss Mulk Raj Anand's Coolie as a postcolonial novel.

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OVERVIEW

Since its publication in 1936, Mulk Raj Anand’s novel Coolie has become a landmark in modern Indian literature. The novel condemned the social, economic, and cultural impact of more than two centuries of British occupation and indicted India’s own rigid caste system, which had long separated its citizens into groups based on their work status and their ethnicity. The novel appeared at the height of a turbulent decade in which India itself, under the moral leadership of Mahatma Gandhi, began to agitate for its independence and, in the process, struggled to define itself. Because Anand was among the first prominent Indian authors to introduce the idioms and patois of India’s indigenous people into otherwise English-language writing, Coolie secured a place in 20th-century Anglo-Indian literature.

Much like the social realist novels of Charles Dickens and John Steinbeck, writers to whom Anand (1905-2004) was compared, Coolie aims to awaken awareness to the plight of the underclass, the suffering and the indignities of life below the poverty line, and the generations, uneducated and unskilled, exploited by the wealthy and denied even the expectation of improving their lot. In telling the story of the life and death of a 14-year-old orphan named Munoo, an uneducated boy from the hill country of north central India who works his short life to secure gainful employment and a living wage, Anand offers a portrait of the struggle to assert one’s dignity and humanity amid poverty, hunger, and disease.

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Answer 2

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'Coolie' was published in 1936 by Mulk Raj Anand. Since then, it has become a landmark in modern Indian literature. The novel condemned the economic, social and cultural impact of British occupation. It indicted India's own rigid caste system.

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• The narrative Coolie is a remarkable picture of self-confidence, as well as the people's dismal living conditions.
• It comprehends all degrees and deviations from the initial route of self-worth.
• The plot centres around Munoo, a little child who desires to be a climber.
• To accomplish his goal, he travels to town and then to the city to explore the mountains.
• As a postcolonial book, the author describes the horrors suffered by lower caste people.
• Coolie is a one-of-a-kind narrative that depicts the condition of individuals who are the most oppressed and abused in society and have no voice.
• It reveals the unpleasant fact that happiness belongs solely to the affluent, while the impoverished suffer wherever they are, be it Kangra Hills, Bombay, or Simla.
• Munoo's life and the many occupations he had, including Servant, factory worker, and coolie, are used to describe the wrong behaviour.
• He had a terrible experience and eventually died.
• Coolie, like the social realist novels of Charles Dickens and John Steinbeck, to whom Anand (1905-2004) was compared, aims to raise awareness of the plight of the underclass, the suffering and indignities of life below the poverty line, and the generations of uneducated and unskilled people exploited by the wealthy and denied even the hope of bettering their lot.
• Anand paints a portrait of the struggle to assert one's dignity and humanity amid poverty, hunger, and disease by telling the story of a 14-year-old orphan named Munoo, an uneducated boy from the hill country of north central India who works his short life to secure gainful employment and a living wage.

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