Theme of underdog in Mulk Raj Anand’s novel ‘The Road’

Pages:11-12
Deepshikha Duhan (Department of English, Singhania University Pacheri Beri, Jhunjunu, Rajasthan)

Mulk Raj Anand is one of the few prolific Indian writers in English who have earned a good name as major novelists. The most recurrent theme in his novels that strikes the reader is his treatment of the oppressed and suppressed classes of society. His subject is man. He proclaims, “If you ask me why I write so many novels, I say it is because I love!”1 Anand considers literature and art as the instruments of humanism and in his opinion the novel is “the most human of European forms of creative literature.”2 He says, “… my media was the whole of my varied experience the theme of my work became the whole man and the whole gamut of human relationships rather than only a single part of it.”3