“Mulk Raj Anand is one of the three greatest Indian novelists writing novels in English, the other two being Raja Rao and R. K. Narayan. His literary career spans a period of more than thirty-six years. Untouchable, the first novel of Mulk Raj Anand, was first published in 1935. Since its publication, the novel has become immensely popular and it has been translated into more than twenty world languages.