Impact of South Asian Literature on the based on The Guide by R.K Narayan and Untouchable bt Mulk Raj Anand.

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3. IMPACT OF RELIGION
 Class Distinction
 Politics
 Dress Code
 Character (Self Realization,
Spirituality, Satisfaction,
Hypocrisy)
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4. IMPACT OF RELIGION
 Acceptance of fixed place in the society.
 Occupation choice restricted.
 Marriage only among member of the same caste.
 Identity Crisis .
 Religion as a Business .
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5. CLASS DISTINCTION
In Untouchable:-
 No proper place to live
 Depend on other’s food (butcher
throws bones to dog)
“Bread for the sweeper ,mother.”
“You eater of your master”
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6. CLASS DISTINCTION
 No right to express own emotions, feelings
“I have to go to Ram Charan’s house to see his sister’s marriage-
and receive my share of sweets.”
Temple= relief but symbol of class conflict, sign of punishment
“Om, Om, Shanti Deva? Was he in the temple?”
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7. CLASS DISTINCTION
 No liberty , freedom
“Posh keep away, posh, sweeper coming, posh posh” (98)
“Polluted, polluted, polluted! Shouted the Brahmin below.”
“Keep to the side of the road, you low caste vermin!”
 Have to pay extra money for food
“Four annas”worth of jalebi” (37)
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8. OTHER RELIGION
Mohammadism
“they don’t mind touching us, the Mohammadans and the
Shahibs”
Christianity
“Bakha was stuck in the co incidence, how did the padri know he
was in the trouble”
“Come all ye that labor, and I will give you the rest”
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9. CLASS DISTINCTION
In The Guide
Rejecting Rosie for her religious status
Marco highlights his status to Rosie
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10. Untouchable
Kalinath= Harasses Sohini.
“He-e-e just teased me”-sohini
Temple= Hipocracy,
Earning more Profit. (Four annas”worth of jalebi” (37)
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11. The Guide
Raju = Swami, spiritually gullible, Advantage Seeker,
way of surviving = “he began narrating the story of Devaka, a
man of ancient times who begged for his alms… halfway
through the story he realized that he could not remember
either its course or purport” (Narayan 15).
“There is nothing extraordinary in my guess…”(21)
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Identity Crisis
 Raju as a saint, sadhu
 Bakhya as a untouchy, no specific
identity.
“I have told them that you are the
Sahib’s bearer: they don’t know that you
are a sweeper.”
Political Conflict
 Conflict between Mr. R.N.
Bashir and Iqbal Nath
Sarshar

13. In Untouchable-
 Solar Topee( power,
authority)
 Sadhu Baba( Extra priority)
I am bringing the food, sadhu
ji, shouted the lady
In The Guide -
Raju mimic’s
saint
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DRESS CODE

14. SELF REALIZATION, SPIRITUALITY,
SATISFACTION
UNTOUCHABL
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 Bakha gets self realization
in the salvationist
missionary.(Jesus Chirst)
T H E G U ID E
 Raju gets satisfaction by
sacrificing himself in a
religious way
 Brings harmony
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