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Abstract Mulk Raj Anand was born in Peshawar, now in Pakistan. He is one of the three pillars of Indain English fiction along with Raja Rao and R.K. Narayan. He had received The International Peace Prize, Padma Bhushan, Sahitya Academy award and various other prestigious awards. For Anand his novels were like a mirror in which contemporary Indian society can see its drawbacks and malpractices. His novels are known for addressing social evils and problems like hunger, poverty, untoucahbility, superstition, financial crisis, identity crisis, etc. He slowly became one of the strongest voices of marginalized sections of the Indian society. His two well known novels Untochable (1935) and Coolie (1936) are finest examples of how realistically Anand had presented the socio-economic problems of marginalized ones in post independent Indian Society. His novel Coolie is a story of 14 year old boy Munoo, and his plight due to poverty and exploitation aided by the social-political structures of Indian society. On the other hand Untochable is a story of a day in the life of a young boy named Bakha; presenting the horrifying and realistic problems that an untouchable faces in a caste based society. Although Anand's Untouchable is the voice of just one young sweeper boy Bakha but he represents his whole untouchable community. Anand in his novel Untouchable puts light upon mental, sexual, financial, social oppression which any untouchable suffers every single day of his life and provides a deep insight of an untouchable's psyche. Although, the central theme of both the novels are different yet they have similar observation in the core of the plot, the caste and class distinctions are the root cause of all sufferings and problems of marginalized people like Bakha and Munoo. Mulk Raj Anand is undoubtedly one of the highly skilled novelists in the sphere of Indian English Literature and when it comes to social novels he stands unparallel as a novelist.