An attempt to find out Societal Exploitations as Subaltern Studies in Mulk Raj Anand's Coolie

Raj Anand has sketched a true picture of societal exploitations as a part of subaltern studies in Coolie with the intention of social awareness. This novel is an authentic record of proletariat people of the Indian society during the early decades of the 19th century. Actually, it describes the sufferings and agony of downtrodden outcaste people exploited by the so-called aristocratic upper class people; native or colonizer and also records the malady felt by them. This is why the novel, Coolie, is recognized as an epic filled with melancholy of an exploited boy named Munoo depicted by Mulk Raj Anand, Charles Dickens of India, and in addition this piece has occupied a special place in Indian literature as well as world literature. This paper is an attempt to focus on suffering and exploitation of Munoo representing all underprivileged Indians. He is the embodiment of sufferings misery of the poor and exploited masses of India. Through this magnum opus Anand raises his courageous voice against all injustice done to low caste or voice less people and moreover gives a voice to the predicament of the mute humanity in vicious circumstances. The suffering is not caused by fate but by fellow human and the social surroundings from which the sufferers still have great and immortal hopes for betterment of life.