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  Mulk Raj Anand - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Mulk Raj Anand (December 12, 1905 - September 28, 2004) was an Indian English language author, who depicted the lives of the billionaire castes in traditional Indian society.
Anand's literary career was launched by family tragedy, instigated by the rigidity of the caste system.
In Anand's second novel, Coolie (1936), he continues to describe the plight of India's poor by telling of a 15-year-old boy, trapped in servitude as a child labourer, who eventually dies of tuberculosis.
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 Encyclopedia: Mulk Raj Anand
Anand won several national awards for his contribution to English literature and his novels are part of school and college curriculums in India.
Anand was to be cremated on yesterday near his home in Khandala, 60 miles south of Bombay, his nephew said.
Mulk Raj Anand (born December 12, 1905) is an India n English language author, who depicted the lives of the poorer castes in traditional Indian society.
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 Mulk Raj Anand   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Anand's literary career was launched by family instigated by the rigidity of the caste His first prose essay was a response the suicide of an aunt who had been by his family for sharing a meal a Muslim.
In Anand's second novel Coolie (1936) he continues to describe the plight India's poor by telling of a fifteen-year-old trapped in servitude as a child laborer eventually dies of tuberculosis.
Untouchable, by Mulk Raj Anand, 1933We thought this was a valuable book because it was motivated by passionate political convictions to inform people about the plight of the 'Untouchables' in Hindu society in the 1930s and was well written.
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 Author Mulk Raj Anand dead- The Times of India   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
PUNE: Mulk Raj Anand, one of the brightest figures among Indian writers in English, who is described as the father of Indo-Anglican literature, died here this morning at the age of 99.
Anand was Tagore Professor of Literature and Fine Arts at the Punjab University and visiting professor at the Institute of Advanced Studies in Shimla.
Anand, an author of novels, short stories, and critical essays in English is known for his realistic and sympathetic portrayal of the poor in India.
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 Books | Mulk Raj Anand
Mulk Raj Anand, who has died of pneumonia aged 98, was one of the most prominent Indian novelists writing in English.
Anand's prolific writing career spanned more than 75 years, during which he was widely identified with the quest for a just, equitable, and forward-looking India.
The son of a coppersmith and a soldier, Mulk Raj Anand was born in Peshawar, in present-day Pakistan.
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 Telegraph | News | Mulk Raj Anand
Mulk Raj Anand, who died yesterday aged 98, was the author of a series of grimly realistic novels about India in the 1930s which, with the aid of fashionable Marxist convictions, earned him a place on the fringes of London literary society.
The son of a soldier, Mulk Raj Anand was born at Peshawar near the North-West Frontier on December 12 1905, and went to Khalsa College, Amritsar, before graduating from Punjab University.
Anand's first writing was an essay prompted by the suicide of an aunt who was excommunicated by his family for sharing a meal with a Muslim.
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 Mulk Raj Anand
Anand drew a realistic and sympathetic portrait of the poor in India.
Mulk Raj Anand was born in Peshawar as the son of Lal Chand, a coppersmith and soldier, and Ishwar Kaur.
Anand's famous trilogy, The Village (1939), Across the Black Waters (1940), and The Sword and the Sickle (1942) was a strong protest against social injustices.
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 Mulk Raj Anand event details
He described Anand's outstanding contributions to Indian literature, both in vernacular and in English and said his "realistic and sympathetic" portrayal of the lives of the poor in India would always be remembered.
As a tribute to Mulk Raj Anand who recently died in Mumbai at the age of 98, Radio 4 is repeating Mukti Jain Campion’s compelling portrait of the novelist often described as the Indian Dickens.
An eulogy to Mulk Raj Anand by Mukti Jain Campion
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 Kala Kahani :: Mulk Raj Anand
Mulk Raj Anand is among the pioneers of the modern Indian Novel in English.
Mulk Raj Anand, Raja Rao, and R.K. Narayan are frequently referred as the "founding fathers" of the Indian English novel.
Mulk Raj Anand was born in Peshawar as the son of a coppersmith and soldier.
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 mulk raj anand   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Mulk Raj Anand (born December 12, 1905) is an Indian English language author, who depicted the lives of the poorer castes in traditional Indian society.
Born in Peshawar, he studied in Amritsar, before moving to England where he attended Cambridge and the University of London, graduating with a Ph.D. in 1929.
In Anand's second novel, Coolie (1936), he continues to describe the plight of India's poor by telling of a fifteen-year-old girl, trapped in servitude as a child laborer, who eventually dies of tuberculosis.
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 Mulk Raj Anand -- English Writer: The South Asian Literary Recordings Project (Library of Congress New Delhi Office)
Mulk Raj Anand was born in 1905 in Peshawar in present-day Pakistan.
Mulk Raj Anand was a founding member of Progressive Writers Association, a national level organization that wielded considerable influence during India's freedom struggle and beyond.
An incredibly prolific writer, Mulk Raj Anand's creative career spanning a period of more than seventy-five years has been inextricably intertwined with the search for a just, equitable, and forward-looking India.
www.loc.gov /acq/ovop/delhi/salrp/mulkrajanand.html   (445 words)

  
 Boston.com / News / Boston Globe / Obituaries / Mulk Raj Anand, at 99, leading Indian novelist
Anand shot to fame in the 1930s with his novels ''Coolie" and ''Untouchable," which portrayed the struggles of a child laborer and a lower-caste sweeper.
Anand graduated from Punjab University and later received a doctorate from the University of London.
Anand as one of the founding fathers of the English novel in India, Press Trust of India news agency reported.
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 A life devoted to the underdog
Awarded the Padma Bhushan for his contribution to English literature, Mulk Raj Anand, son of a coppersmith and soldier, was born on December 12, 1905, in Peshawar.
She committed suicide, and Anand's first prose essay was born as a response to this rigidity of the caste system.
Mulk Raj Anand was indeed a treasure for Modern Indian Literature.
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 Obit: Writer Mulk Raj Anand
Born in Peshawar as son of a coppersmith and soldier, Anand attended Khalsa College, Amritsar, and entered the University of Punjab in 1921, graduating with honours in 1924.
Anand, whose work Untouchable (1935) and Coolie (1936) won him wide accolades, was among those who was highly influenced by the world of Mahatma Gandhi, which was reflected in his writings.
Anand was the 'fiery voice' of the exploited and his analysis of the socio-political situation in his work reflects that spirited fight against social injustice.
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 AbsoluteFacts.nl - Anand, Mulk Raj (1905-2004)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Anand was in de jaren dertig succesvol met de romans "Coolie" en "Untouchable".
Mulk Raj Anand schreef naast romans ook korte verhalen.
Mulk Raj Anand werd in december 1905 geboren in Peshawar.
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 Boston.com / A&E / Celebrity news / Indian writer Mulk Raj Anand dies   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Mulk Raj Anand, one of India's best-known writers of English-language novels and short stories, has died of pneumonia.
Anand won several national awards for his contribution to English literature, and his novels are part of school and college curricula in India.
Anand was to be cremated on Thursday near his home in Khandala, 60 miles south of Bombay, his nephew said.
www.boston.com /ae/celebrity/articles/2004/09/30/indian_writer_mulk_raj_anand_dies?mode=PF   (318 words)

  
 International Socialism: Mulk Raj Anand: novelist and fighter
Anand held A Passage to India to be the best fictional writing on his homeland, as this went beyond the orientalist conceptions of the ‘natives’ and attempted to depict the complex, often contradictory and mostly confrontational impact of colonial rule in India.
Anand praised Forster for his support as it was not only unusual for an Indian writer to have his central character be a latrine cleaner; many European writers would not touch a subject like this either.
Anand was acutely aware of the threat fascism represented for writers in Europe and the mortal danger it held for humanity.
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 Tehelka - The People's Paper
Mulk Raj Anand was born on December 12, 1905.
Mulk Raj’s legacy must be examined in the context of the multi-layered genealogy of recent Indian literature.
In an interview with The Times of India during Orwell’s centenary year, Mulk Raj is quoted to have said “In recall, I feel our friendship was an example of independent writers from the imperial country and the subject country getting together.” The imperial moment has passed, the literary torch moved on to more confident appropriation.
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 BBC NEWS | South Asia | Indian author Mulk Raj Anand dies
Anand used much of his writing to describe the trauma suffered by those at the bottom rung of India's complex social hierarchy.
Anand's first novels were Untouchable (1935) and Coolie (1936), the story of a 15-year-old child labourer who dies of tuberculosis.
Mulk Raj Anand was born in 1905 in Peshawar in what is now Pakistan.
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 The Indelible Problem: Mulk Raj Anand and the Plight of Untouchabilitye
Anand chooses to close the final scene of his novel by appropriating the inner conflict of Bakha and juxtaposing "enthusiasm" with "naiveté." There seems to be an inherent, even subtle, irony in describing Bahka in this manner.
Anand has suggested himself that his novels should be read in a political context; as such, it would stand to reason that literature has a fundamental impact on the development of culture, especially in post-colonialism.
Here, Anand only skims the surface of its possibilities; introducing the concept in the very last pages of his novel only weakens the poet's arguments because neither the main protagonist nor the reader has enough time to fully conceptualize its implications.
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 The Tribune, Chandigarh, India - Main News
Anand, who was conferred the Padma Bhushan in recognition of his contribution to Indian writing in English stumbled into literature by accident.
Anand was Tagore Professor of Literature and Fine Arts at Panjab University and a visiting professor at the Institute of Advanced Studies in Shimla.
Describing Mulk Raj Anand as “one of the founding fathers” of English novel in India, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh expressed grief at the demise of the noted novelist.
www.tribuneindia.com /2004/20040929/main3.htm   (406 words)

  
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MULK RAJ ANAND was born in 1905 in Peshawar, now in Pakistan, and educated at the Universities of Punjab and London.
The Mulk Raj Anand Omnibus is a tribute to one of the founding fathers of the Indian novel in English.
This compilation is a group of Mulk Raj Anand's short stories selected with the co-operation of the writer himself from a collection of his writings over the last forty years.
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 Literary giant Mulk Raj Anand dead - Deccan Herald   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Mulk Raj Anand, one of the brightest figures among Indian writers in English, whose works depicted the lives of people in the country's traditional society, died here on Tuesday morning at the age of 99.
Anand, a winner of many national and international awards, including Padma Bhusan, died due to old age complications at around 0830 hours in city's Jehangir Hospital where he was admitted on September 17 for treatment of pneumonia, Ram Gohar, his caretaker told PTI.
Anand was Tagore Professor of Literature at the Punjab University and visting professor at the Institute of Advanced Studies in Shimla.
www.deccanherald.com /deccanherald/sep292004/i6.asp   (352 words)

  
 Mulk Raj Anand
Mulk Raj Anand was born in Peshawar in 1905.
Anand began writing professionally during his years in England, though he had displayed an interest even earlier.
Two Leaves and a Bud (1937) followed and Anand began to be counted, along with RK Narayan and Raja Rao as giving voice to the proletariat and their struggles.
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 Kitabkhana: Mulk Raj Anand and the importance of flush toilets
Kitabkhana: Mulk Raj Anand and the importance of flush toilets
Mulk Raj Anand and the importance of flush toilets
And, according to Arvind Krishna Mehrotra's Illustrated History of Indian Literature in English, Mulk Raj Anand's 1941 novel, Across the Black Waters, is "possibly the only world war novel in Indian English literature".
kitabkhana.blogspot.com /2004/09/mulk-raj-anand-and-importance-of-flush.html   (93 words)

  
 EAPGROUP | Eastern Art Report Online | NEWS: Mulk Raj Anand dies
Mulk Raj Anand, eminence grise of Indian writing in English, who won fame for works including Untouchable and Coolie, died aged 99 in a hospital in Pune, India, on 28 September, the Times of India reported.
Born in Peshawar (present-ay Pakistan) in 1905, Anand was educated at Cambridge and London where he did his doctorate in philosophy.
The founder-editor of the literary 'Marg' magazine and Tagore professor of art in Punjab University, Anand, along with R K Narayan, was among the early and pioneering Indian writers in English.
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 Mulk Raj Anand passes away in Pune   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Mulk Raj is survived by his wife Shireen, daughter Sushila and niece Jyoti, who has rushed to Pune from Mumbai.
Mulk Raj complained of respiratory problems and was admitted to Jehangir Hopsital.
Mulk Raj was born on December 12, 1905 in Peshawar.
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