• Lavesh Dhamgaye
• Dr.Shashi Yadav

This paper examines the centrality and representational complexity of women in the major novels of Mulk Raj Anand particularly Untouchable (1935), Coolie (1936), and Two Leaves and a Bud (1937), with glances at later works. It argues that Anand’s fictional women are not peripheral ornaments to male-cantered plots rather, they are catalysts who expose the intersecting structures of caste, class, and colonial power, and they anchor the author’s humanist ethics. While Anand often writes through male focalizers, women repeatedly function as the text’s moral barometers, sites of social injury, and vehicles of social critique. The paper also notes limits in Anand’s vision moments of paternalism and exoticization while situating his portrayals within 1930s realist aesthetics and reformist discourse.

focalizers, moral barometers, social injury, paternalism, aesthetics, discourse.

"Relevance of women in the novels of Mulk Raj Anand", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.13, Issue 2, page no.c1-c4, February-2026, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2602201.pdf

"Relevance of women in the novels of Mulk Raj Anand", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.13, Issue 2, page no. ppc1-c4, February-2026, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2602201.pdf