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| spouses = [[Kathleen Gelder]]; [[Shirin Vajifdar]]

| notablework = [[Coolie]]; [[Untouchable (book)|Untouchable]]

'''Mulk Raj Anand''' (12 December 1905&nbsp;– 28 September 2004) was an Indian writer in English, notable for his depiction of the lives of the poorer [[caste system|castes]] in traditional Indian society. One of the pioneers of [[anglo-indian]] fiction, he, together with [[R. K. Narayan]], [[Ahmad Ali]] and [[Raja Rao]], was one of the first India-based writers in English to gain an International readership. Anand is admired for his novels and short stories, which have acquired the status of classics of modern Indian English literature; they are noted for their perceptive insight into the lives of the oppressed and for their analysis of impoverishment, exploitation and misfortune.<ref>{{cite news |last=Zakaria |first=Rafiq |author-link=Rafiq Zakaria |title=Very English, more Indian |url=http://archive.indianexpress.com/oldStory/56034/ |newspaper=[[The Indian Express]] |date=29 September 2004}}</ref><ref>"...it can be said that they have taken over from British writers like E. M. Forster & Edward Thompson the task of interpreting modern India to itself & the world." ''The Oxford History of India'', [[Vincent Arthur Smith|Vincent A. Smith]] (3rd edition, ed. [[Percival Spear]]), 1967, p. 838.</ref><ref>{{cite news |title= The last of Indian English fiction's grand troika: Encyclopaedia of arts |url=https://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/the-last-of-indian-english-fictions-grand-troika/article27675173.ece |url-access=subscription |newspaper=[[The Hindu]] |author= Ranjit Hoskote |author-link= Ranjit Hoskote |date=29 September 2004 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20041217175613/http://www.hindu.com/2004/09/29/stories/2004092904171100.htm |archive-date=17 December 2004 |access-date=2019-08-29}}</ref> He became known for his protest novel “Untouchable” (1935), followed by other works on the Indian poor such as “Coolie” (1936) and “Two Leaves and a Bud” (1937).<ref>{{Cite book|last=Norwich|first=John Julius|title=Oxford Illustrated Encyclopedia Of The Arts|url=https://archive.org/details/oxfordillustrate00norw|url-access=limited|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=1990|isbn=978-0198691372|location=USA|pages=[https://archive.org/details/oxfordillustrate00norw/page/16 16]}}</ref>  He is also noted for being among the first writers to incorporate [[Punjabi language|Punjabi]] and [[Hindustani language|Hindustani]] idioms into English,<ref name=iloveindia>[http://www.iloveindia.com/indian-heroes/mulk-raj-anand.html "Mulk Raj Anand Profile"], iloveindia.com.</ref> and was a recipient of the civilian honour of the [[Padma Bhushan]].<ref name="Padma Awards">{{cite web | url=http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf | title=Padma Awards | publisher=Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India | date=2015 | access-date=July 21, 2015}}</ref>

* ''[[Across the Black Waters]]'' (1939)

* ''Homage to Khajuraaho'' co-authored with [[Stella Kramrisch]] <ref>{{Cite book|last=Anand|first=Mulk Raj|url=http://archive.org/details/in.gov.ignca.10136|title=Homage to Khajuraho|last2=Kramrisch|first2=Stella}}</ref>