Assembly of Keywords

The novel Untouchable is the story of a boy living in colonial times that revolves around poverty. It is the time in which the British have invaded India in a sense of which they pronounce it their own. However, under these circumstances this boy named Bakha whom is considered to be the “Untouchable” by the caste system of his nation, holds a sort of false consciousness in which he becomes rebellious to his surroundings and then at the same time strives to personify an ideology of these “higher” men as if they were his role-model or hero. His false consciousness is what he doesn’t seem to understand and disagrees with which causes him to continuously end up in many mishaps, like those with his father and fellows around him. As a preform to this he strives to live in a paradigm that idolizes the people of higher authority (specifically, the sahib’s and british soldiers). As opposed to which his actual paradigm is set in a way to constrain him and others like him from being somebody. Since he doesn’t seem to recognize the oppression of which he fits into, his life becomes sophisticated being that he starts to oppose all that he feels shunned to. This caste serves as a form of racial formation which radically distinguishes Bakha and many other Indians in his nation of “lower castes” as opposed to the ones of a “higher caste”....