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In Indian literature, the novels of Mulk Raj Anand, R.K. Narayan, and Raja Rao laid the foundation of Indian English fiction. The post-colonial age represented by these three novelists was importantly a quest for identity along various dimensions of socio-political and economic order of India. It is clear that individual's search for identity has been the prime aspect in almost all the novels of Anand. The loss of identity may be a moment of despair for the protagonists but when they re-attain their identity after a long struggle it is a great moment of delight for them. The word 'Identity' finds its origin in the late sixteenth century, (in the sense 'quality of being identical'). This paper explores how Mulk Raj Anand in his novels like Coolie, The Road, Untouchable, Two Leaves and A Bud and The Sword and The Sickle portrays the real sufferings Protagonists in the hands of upper class and their sufferings represent individuals as well as the society's struggle for identity.