Coolie-
- Mulkaraj Anand
Mulkaraj Anad is the traditional Indians
coppersmith’s son who is clever and uses his brain and talent. He was born in
Peshawar in 1905 got education at Lahore, London and Cambridge and took
doctorate in philosophy afterwards he dedicated his life two his writing one of
early books was “carries and other Indian dishes “and another books were ‘The
Hindu view Of Art” and “The Golden Breath”.
His first five novels appears in the following
sequence
1) Untouchable
2) Coolie
3) Two leaves and a
bud
4) The Village
5) Across the Black
Water
Coolie is some got
similar too untouchable .the action moves from village to town , from Town to
city and from city to Bombay, the gate way of India and form Bombay to Simla
.Coolie is character novel what Edwin Muir calls it the Hero, The Hill boy
Munoo whom moved from place to place for example first he lives with his uncle and
aunt in his village Ballarpur, than with the bank sub account ‘s family at
Shamnagar where Munoo works as servant than with his benefactor Prabha.We are
lost with Munoo in Bombay’s slums and crawls and noise and madness than with Mrs.
Mainwaring at Simla as Rickshaw collier were he dies of consumption .Coolie is more like the microcosm
that Indian society which is mixture of the horrible and holy , the human and
the Humane. The sordid and the beautiful. The good and evil are presented
together in actual life.
The Theme of the novel conveys as
there is no time for us to pause, to things, to judge for we are constantly
shifted in new situation .Munoo is exploited all the time in one or another way.
It satirizes that in India there is no prosperity, no education, no profession
that why people decided to be coolie for them it is the satisfied profession.
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