Coolie

Mulk Raj Anand · 1936 CE · Novel · Indian · Modernist

Munoo, a hill boy of fourteen sent down from Kangra to earn, is passed from a bank clerk's kitchen to a pickle factory, on to the cotton mills of Bombay and then to a rickshaw's shafts in Simla. Each master is kinder or crueller than the last and none of them alters what he is worth. Anand's Dickensian survey of Indian labour, written in a few months at white heat.

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