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• The following version of this book was used to create this Lesson Plan: Anand, Mulk Raj. Untouchable. Penguin Books, 2014. Penguin Classics Paperback Edition.

• Note: the term "outcaste" is used throughout this Lesson Plan to refer to Scheduled Caste people, to reflect accurately terminology used in the text Untouchable.

• The novel is set in Bulashah, a cantonment (military garrison) town in the Himalayan foothills of India; the action opens one autumn morning in "The outcastes' colony," a grouping of mud huts just outside the boundary of the town (3).

• All of the novel's action takes place on this single day, in either the outcaste colony or the nearby town.

• Those whose caste-based occupations are considered to be ritually polluting--scavengers, leather-workers, barbers, grass-cutters, and so on--live in this colony of outcastes.

• This colony's water and air are polluted by the nearby rows of latrines and the waste from...

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