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How long does it take to read Untouchable [by] Mulk Raj Anand?
Untouchable [by] Mulk Raj Anand by Mulk Raj Anand takes about 2 hours 56 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 2 hours 56 minutes
An evening's read
First published 1933. 160 pages, about 44,000 words.
6 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 4 hours 53 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 2 hours 56 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 1 hour 50 minutes |
The page count is the median across 25 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
With precision, vitality, and a fury that earned him praise as India's Charles Dickens, Mulk Raj Anand recreates in" Untouchable" what it was like to live on the fringes of society in pre-independence India. Bakha, an attractive, proud, and strong young man, is also an Untouchable, the lowest of the low in India's caste system. A sweeper and a toilet-cleaner, he must warn others on the street of his status so that he will not pollute them with his presence. In this urgent 1935 re-creation of one day in the life of an outcast, a violent encounter leads Bakha to question his fate--and to find an answer in the unlikeliest of places.
Subjects: Dalits, Fiction, Social life and customs, Untouchables, Fiction, general, India, fiction
