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Mulk Raj Anand is one of the galaxy of grand masters of Indian English fiction, who has rendered a great contribution in the field of fiction. His reformative zeal, keen observation and humanistic attitudes towards society gave him a surging call to pen 'Untouchable' delineating the every corner of suffering, subjugation and inhuman plight of the Dalits or marginalised class who were stamped as Untouchables under the domination of the upper class Brahmins who were no less than the British counterpart in dominating attitude. Though M.R. Anand does not belong to post-colonial era of literature historically, his novels and short stories bear strong perspectives of postcolonial literature. This present paper aims at analysing his use of postcolonial language i.e 'english', a deformed and reformed form of standard English, as formulated by the critics Bill Ashcroft, Gareth Griffiths and Helen Tiffin in their 'Empire Writes Back'. During the colonial period the British colonizers not only destroyed the economy of the colonized natives but also the culture, language and every social aspects were dashed to ground brutally. After the decolonization, the postcolonial writers of the former colonized countries like India asserted cultural fundamentalism and the use of native language for writing. Some postcolonial writers advocate complete return to the use of indigenous languages while others see the language (e.g. English) imposed by the colonizer as a more practical alternative to enhance inter-nation communication and to counter a colonial past through de-forming the standard form of English and reforming it with native flavour.