Anand’s Coolie : Inhumanity Against Humanity

Abstract

The novel coolie gives a faithful picture of the exploitation and misery of the underprivileged and the novelist \ dissatisfaction with a society whose utilitarian concern unscrupulously massacres social morality. Anand’s anger is at its height when he deals with Munoos ’experiences in Daulatpur and Bombay respectively. Whatever happens with the employees in the pickle factory at Daulatpur and in Sir Geroge White’s Cotton Mills’ clearly indicates that the bullocks that plough the field or pull the cart, the elephants that lift huge log of wood in the forest, the asses that carry large bale of clothes of the washerman, and even the machine that works for hours in a factory get rest but not the labourers who toil hard and sweat for a mere subsistence wage.